EAST SOMERSET DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 308238 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST SOMERST DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL, YEOVIL & DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL, YEOVIL DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

various activities in accordance with the scout assoc guidelines

Objects

UNIT OF THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION.

Area of benefit: YEOVIL

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that district finances are sound with sufficient funds to meet commitments, and the Support Fund income reserve stood at £30,616. The trustees report that financial risks are rated as minimal and the district has experienced growth in young people and adult volunteers. The accounts were prepared on a receipts and payments basis and examined by an independent examiner with no material matters reported.

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 policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/02/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy Francis Rutherfordchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Adrian Graham Ashford
• CHRISTOPHER JONES · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Frowde
• Eur Ing MICHAEL ANDREW JAMES
• Heather Patricia Pitts
• Howard Gordan Russell
• PAMELA BURCH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Raymond John Marsh
• Tony Dyson
• Wesley Read
• robert simpson

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• NORTH LEEDS DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £131k
• SOUTHEND ESTUARY DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £130k
• CHICHESTER DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £104k
• WARRINGTON EAST DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £125k
• BASINGSTOKE EAST DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £269k
• SOUTHAMPTON CITY DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £125k

Side by side with its peers

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