SURREY COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 305819 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SURREY SCOUTS

To actively engage and support young people in their personal development, empowering them to make a positive contribution to society.

Objects

PURPOSES OF THE SURREY COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL

Area of benefit: SURREY

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Surrey Scouts reported a net operating income of £92,474 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by a surplus at Bentley Copse offset by lower donations compared to the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,729,555, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of approximately £300k, which covers twelve months of normal fixed expenditure. The trustees consider the charity to be a viable going concern with adequate resources to manage adverse situations.

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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Surrey Scouts (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~13.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gary Ernest · trustee of 2 other charities
• HUGH ROBERT GOSTLING · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Lutton
• Jonathan Lewis Turner
• Joseph Sean Casey
• Julia Kielstra · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kelvin James Freeman
• Kewin Kobylski
• MARTIN GERRARD QPM DL
• Marcus Martin-Burns

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

Operates in: Surrey

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 KENNET DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL.

• KENNET DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £124k
• KENT COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £1.1m
• CORNWALL COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £101k
• NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £146k
• AVON COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £681k
• EXETER AND DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £198k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.