HEREFORD AND WORCESTER SCOUT COUNTY

Registered charity 505004 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEREFORD AND WORCESTER COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL, HEREFORD AND WORCESTER SCOUTS

TO SUPPORT AND DEVELOP SCOUTING IN HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE ACCORDING TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION POLICY, ORGANISATION & RULES. THIS INCLUDES THE PROVISION OF TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEADERS AND VOLUNTEERS.TO PROVIDE CAMPING AND ACTIVITY FACILITIES AT KINVER, STAFFORDSHIRE.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIALS AS INDIVIDUALS, AS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS AND AS MEMBERS OF THEIR LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held net current assets of £182,436, which the Trustees confirmed was equivalent to 10 months of expenditure. This figure is below the Trustees' stated policy aim to hold a reserve equivalent to 12 months of operating costs. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, with unrestricted funds decreasing from £96,808 to £74,956.

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
• 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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Scouts Hereford & Worcester (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 ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (82% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT GEOFFREY CHARLES WILLIAMSchair
• ALAN JAMES DEAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bryndley Jones
• Felicity Jones
• Fern Louise Harkness Fellowes-Day
• IAN NEWMAN
• Mark Bache
• Nathan Craig Hood

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

Operates in: Herefordshire · Staffordshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• WILTSHIRE SCOUT COUNCIL income £158k
• CENTRAL YORKSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £431k
• GREATER MANCHESTER WEST COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £133k
• Chester and District Scout Council income £149k
• BEDFORDSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £210k
• NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £146k

Side by side with its peers

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