CUMBRIA COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 520617 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CUMBRIA DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

The purpose of Scouting is 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. It does this through an enjoyable and attractive scheme of progressive training based on the Scout Promise and Law.

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: CUMBRIA

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

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Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The provided document does not contain financial statements, income and expenditure accounts, or balance sheets for the Cumbria County Scout Council for the year ended 31st March 2026. Consequently, no information regarding financial performance, reserves, or liabilities is available in the text. The document primarily consists of a strategic narrative regarding a Grassroots Fund and a list of individual award recipients.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Martin Porterchair
• ALAN CLARK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ben David Walker
• Carolyn Otley
• David Charles Mason
• Derek James Gilfillan
• Edward James Ward
• Joshua Harry Musgrave
• Rebecca Susan Coates · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £120k
• CARDIFF NORTH DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £110k
• CITY OF NEWCASTLE DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £164k
• GREATER LONDON NORTH EAST COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £167k
• SOUTH YORKSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £572k
• NORTH DEVON DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £439k

Side by side with its peers

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