BLACKPOOL DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 521534 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Scouting - within Blackpool

Objects

UNIT OF THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION.

Area of benefit: BLACKPOOL

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the district reported a net deficit of £352,207 for the year ending 31 March 2025, resulting in free reserves falling to £3,527. This figure is significantly below the trustees' stated policy target, which requires maintaining free reserves equivalent to nine months of annual costs. The district relies heavily on member income and has limited capacity for other fundraising.

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 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
• 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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Michael Hardychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew David Inglis
• Elizabeth Abbott · trustee of 1 other charity
• Holly Louise Brookfield
• JOAN SWAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janet Hardy
• Joanna Hacking
• Lesley Meddings · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Philip Hornby
• Peter Rumley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert John Ward
• Victoria Kenmare

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

Operates in: Blackpool

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• WARWICK DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £136k
• BLACKPOOL TEACHING HOSPITALS CHARITABLE FUND AND RELATED CHARITIES income £941k
• BRENT DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £140k
• VOLUNTEER CENTRE BLACKPOOL WYRE AND FYLDE income £626k
• SUTTON DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £122k
• CHORLEY DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £200k

Side by side with its peers

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