1ST CHEAM SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 303838 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as 1ST CHEAM BOY SCOUTS GROUP

Scout group

Objects

PURPOSES OF THE 1ST CHEAM BOY SCOUTS GROUP

Area of benefit: CHEAM

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sutton, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group recorded an overall cash deficit for the year of £7,855, driven by spending on COVID support grants and vehicle replacement. Despite this deficit, the Group held unrestricted reserves of £43,468 in its general account, which exceeds its stated policy target of approximately £12,000. The net assets increased to £906,551 due to a significant revaluation of fixed assets.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 19/05/2024, 109 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Smith
• David Hodges
• Ingrid Hodges
• JONATHAN LONG
• Jenny Batt
• PAUL SHARP
• Peter Baker

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Sutton

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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