NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 508681 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTHUMBERLAND SCOUTS, NORTHUMBERLAND SCOUTS AND GUIDES

SCOUTING EXISTS TO ACTIVELY ENGAGE AND SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, EMPOWERING THEM TO MAKE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY

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: NORTHUMBERLAND

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

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Tyneside, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £8,101 for the year, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £385,064. The trustees confirmed that these reserves are in excess of their stated policy target of 12 months of core expenditure (£90,000). The accounts state that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 5 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/04/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Helen Patersonchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• ALAN KELLY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel Thirlaway · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOYCELYN ISABEL COLLIE · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Harvey
• Logan Jake O'Hara
• Mark Beckwith
• Norma Pigeon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Andrew Coulson
• Peter Thorp · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sean Mulligan · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL.

• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £615k
• BRUNEL DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £135k
• BERKSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £214k
• SOMERSET COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £404k
• EXETER AND DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £198k
• GREATER LONDON NORTH EAST COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £167k

Side by side with its peers

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