38TH ROSSENDALE SCOUTS

Registered charity 512657 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potentials, 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: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE ROSSENDALE

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

Registered contact address: Rossendale, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£73k
Latest spending
£74k
Registered
1982
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group had a small deficit in the 2024-5 financial year due to rising costs. To ensure sustainability, subscription fees are increasing and the charity is diversifying income through fundraising and grants. The trustees describe the Group as being in a stable but carefully balanced position.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none
“The Group is totally self-funded as we have no sponsoring body such as a church to support us.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 3 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.

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 40
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 45
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 50
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£73k£74k
31/03/2024£58k£52k
31/03/2023£42k£76k
31/03/2022£49k£39k
31/03/2021£42k£47k

Common questions

Is 38TH ROSSENDALE SCOUTS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Group had a small deficit in the 2024-5 financial year due to rising costs. To ensure sustainability, subscription fees are increasing and the charity is diversifying income through fundraising and grants. The trustees describe the Group as being in a stable but carefully balanced position.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund16/02/2006£5kRebuild of Warren

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE ASDA FOUNDATION1£37k
THE CLARE MILNE TRUST1£5k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
38TH ROSSENDALE SCOUTS£73k—0unclear—no doubt
GROVE SCOUT GROUP FY2025£44k—0unclear—no doubt
38th & 40th Strood Sea Scouts FY2026£59k—0above—no doubt
WARRINGTON WEST DISTRICT SCOUTS FY2025£82k—0within—no doubt
THE ROSELAND CENTRE FY2025£101k——unclear—no doubt
WREXHAM DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL FY2026£196k——unclear—no doubt

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