BLACKDOWN DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 305633 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TAUNTON BOY SCOUTS LOCAL ASSOCIATION, TAUNTON DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Education/Training for Young People

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THEIR PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIALS AS INDIVIDUALS,AS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS AND AS MEMBERS OF THEIR LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES

Area of benefit: TAUNTON AND DISTRICT

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £930 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total funds increasing to £626,347. The trustees maintain unrestricted reserves of £420,561, which they aim to hold to cover at least six months of operating costs. The filing confirms no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Paying staff
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Pinguenet
• DAVID FRANK JOHNSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Lumbard
• Erica Betteridge
• JOHN DAVID LEWIS
• Nadia Atherton
• Richard Smith
• Steven John Purchase
• Thomas Hold

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH MARCHES DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL.

• SOUTH MARCHES DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £160k
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• MEDWAY TOWNS DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £146k
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• 1ST CLAYGATE SCOUT GROUP income £188k
• NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £146k

Side by side with its peers

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