1ST GREAT SUTTON SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 520197 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as 1ST GREAT SUTTON BOY SCOUT GROUP

Scouting including - beavers, cubs, scouts and explorer scouts.

Objects

1ST GREAT SUTTON BOY SCOUT GROUP

Area of benefit: GREAT SUTTON

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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£58k

Latest spending

£48k

Registered

1966

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £76,918.50, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £60,000 (equivalent to 12 months' running costs). The trustees confirm that budgeted income and expenditure, combined with current reserves, are sufficient for the charity to continue as a going concern for the next 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 12 months running costs, circa £60K (held: £77k)

“The Group Board of Trustees considers that the Group should hold a sum equivalent to 12 months running costs, circa £60K.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
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
Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

Paul Bowerschair
Amanda Roscoe
CHRISTOPHER JOHN MARCHANT · trustee of 3 other charities
Charlotte Marie Worthington
Christopher James Reddy
Claire Powell
Claire Reid
HEATHER FRANCE
Joanne McGhee
Paul Wainwright
Peter John Adamson
Tracy Davies

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

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£58k	£48k
31/03/2024	£44k	£44k
31/03/2023	£43k	£35k
31/03/2022	£29k	£26k
31/03/2021	£41k	£13k

Common questions

Is 1ST GREAT SUTTON SCOUT GROUP financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £76,918.50, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £60,000 (equivalent to 12 months' running costs). The trustees confirm that budgeted income and expenditure, combined with current reserves, are sufficient for the charity to continue as a going concern for the next 12 months. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	29/09/2011	£2k	1st Great Sutton Scouts New Disabled Toilets

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with 1ST CROWBOROUGH SCOUT GROUP.

1ST CROWBOROUGH SCOUT GROUP income £66k
1ST WROUGHTON SCOUT GROUP income £37k
1ST WOOTTON BASSETT SCOUT GROUP income £28k
1ST HIGHFIELD SCOUT GROUP income £27k
1ST WHITCHURCH SCOUT GROUP income £21k
1ST IBSTOCK BOY SCOUT GROUP income £36k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
1ST GREAT SUTTON SCOUT GROUP	£58k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
1ST CROWBOROUGH SCOUT GROUP FY2026	£66k	—	above	—	no doubt
1ST WROUGHTON SCOUT GROUP FY2025	£37k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
1ST WOOTTON BASSETT SCOUT GROUP FY2025	£28k	—	above	—	no doubt
1ST HIGHFIELD SCOUT GROUP FY2025	£27k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
1ST WHITCHURCH SCOUT GROUP FY2024	£21k	—	above	—	no doubt

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