West End Scout Group

Registered charity 305705 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WEST END CHOBHAM SCOUTS AND GUIDES, WEST END SCOUT & GUIDE CENTRE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Providing an enjoyable and attractive scheme of progressive training based on the Scout Promise & Law and guided by adult leadership, to promote the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potentials, as individuals, as responsible citizens and as memebers of their local, national & international communities.

Objects

SCOUT GROUP

Area of benefit: CHOBHAM

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£49k
Latest spending
£31k
Registered
1970
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £48,781 at year-end, an increase from the previous year's £47,649. The trustees report that while reserves for Scouting activities are above the required level, the building maintenance reserve of £7,500 remains below the stated policy target of 12 months' running costs. The charity notes it has sufficient resources to continue its activities, with no material uncertainties disclosed.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 12 months running costs (held: £49k)
“The Group Trustee Board considers that the group should hold a sum equivalent to 12 months running costs, circa £8,500 for the building and £4,000 for Scouting”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£49k£31k
31/08/2024£31k£32k
31/03/2023£5k£8k
31/03/2022£4k£5k
31/03/2021£11k£4k

Common questions

Is West End Scout Group financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £48,781 at year-end, an increase from the previous year's £47,649. The trustees report that while reserves for Scouting activities are above the required level, the building maintenance reserve of £7,500 remains below the stated policy target of 12 months' running costs. The charity notes it has sufficient resources to continue its activities, with no material uncertainties disclosed. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.