BOOKHAM AND EFFINGHAM DISTRICT GUIDE ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 305771 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOOKHAM AND BOOKHAM AND EFFINGHAM GUIDES, BOOKHAM DISTRICT GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION, FRIENDS OF BOOKHAM AND EFFINGHAM GUIDES

To provide meeting places and to support the leaders of all the Units within the Bookham and Effingham District. Ensuring suitable activities are provided for girls of each age group within the guidelines set by Guiding UK.

Objects

UNIT OF THE GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION

Area of benefit: BOOKHAM

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 · Education/training · Recreation · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds a substantial reserve specifically designated to cover the cost of restoring leased property if the lease is surrendered. The organization relies on volunteers and generates some income from letting the property, though a portion is paid to the council. No independent audit or examiner's report is present in the filing.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Sharpchair
• Andrea Joy Lord
• MRS JENNY BRYANT
• ROBERTA JANE WILSON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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