DORRIDGE SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 503525 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as 1ST DORRIDGE SCOUTS UNIT

The scout association has the following clear purpose: to help young people achieve their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potential as individuals, as responsible citizens and as members of their local national and international communities.

Objects

THE INSTRUCTION OF BOYS OF ALL CLASSES IN THE PRINCIPLES OF DISCIPLINE, LOYALTY AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP.

Area of benefit: DORRIDGE.

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 · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a deficit for the year, with total payments of £65,007 exceeding total receipts of £43,070. Consequently, unrestricted cash reserves decreased from £32,253 to £18,890. The trustees maintain a reserves policy to hold six months of fixed costs, approximately £5,000, which the current reserves significantly exceed.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ceryse Griffith
• Ellen Carmen Hickman
• Jennifer Anne Buck
• John William Collins
• Lauren Michelle Vergo
• Lesley Anne Bilney
• Lis Hedley
• Sarah Rosemary Long
• Simon Claude Paulo
• Victoria Mumford

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

Operates in: Solihull

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).