SUNDERLAND DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 520713 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SUNDERLAND AND DISTRICT BOY SCOUTS LOCAL ASSOCIATION, SUNDERLAND SCOUTS

SCOUTING ACTIVELY ENGAGES AND SUPPORTS YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, EMPOWERING THEM TO MAKE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY.

Objects

SUNDERLAND DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Area of benefit: SUNDERLAND AND DISTRICT

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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the District holds reserves equivalent to six months of running costs, with a target sum of approximately £4,000. The financial review section is present but contains no explicit numerical data regarding income, expenditure, or reserves in the provided text. The trustees report indicates reliance on subscriptions and fundraising, with no stated material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• KEITH LOWESchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Aaron Horton
• DAVID GEORGE RUSSELL
• Ethan William Cowey
• Jake Charles Mann
• James William Elliot
• Kris Callaghan Woods
• LESLEY ANNE ROBINSON
• Philip John Atkinson
• Steven Arthur Whatt

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

Operates in: Sunderland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• WOODLAND DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £48k
• BRUNEL DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £135k
• BISHOPS STORTFORD SCOUT DISTRICT income £103k
• NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £146k
• CHEDDINGTON SCOUT GROUP income £30k
• HARROGATE AND NIDDERDALE DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £188k

Side by side with its peers

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