GUIDE ASSOCIATION BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Registered charity 308309 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY OF THE GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION, GIRLGUIDING BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

GIRLGUIDING ENABLES GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN TO FULFIL THEIR POTENTIAL AND TAKE AN ACTIVE AND RESPONSIBLE ROLE IN SOCIETY, THROUGH A STIMULATING AND ENJOYABLE PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES DELIVERED BY TRAINED VOLUNTEER LEADERS.OUR VISION IS TO BE RECOGNISED AS THE LEADING ORGANISATION FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN.

Objects

UNIT OF THE GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION

Area of benefit: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

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 total funds increased to £1,524,000, with unrestricted reserves of £399,705 significantly exceeding the stated policy target of approximately £150,000. The charity reported a net income increase to £228,000, driven largely by grant income, while expenditure decreased to £106,000. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Girlguiding Buckinghamshire (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~112.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DEBBIE NORIE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fiona Rivett
• Gillian Carol MacKenzie
• Helen Jane Solloway
• JANET SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janet Loach · trustee of 1 other charity
• Judith Freeman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katherine Berryman
• LISA DAWN FORD · trustee of 1 other charity
• RUTH BOWLES
• Sheila Jane Beales
• Susan Berry
• Toni MacDonald

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

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 HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY GUIDES ASSOCIATION.

• HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY GUIDES ASSOCIATION income £248k
• WORCESTERSHIRE GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £198k
• THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £31.6m
• CHESHIRE FOREST COUNTY OF THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £216k
• THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION LONDON AND SOUTH EAST ENGLAND REGION income £1.2m
• THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION - HAMPSHIRE WEST income £107k

Side by side with its peers

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