OLDHAM BOROUGH DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 521640 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OLDHAM BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES, OLDHAM DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL, OLDHAM SCOUTS

Training Young People

Objects

THE INSTRUCTION OF BOYS OF ALL CLASSES IN THE PRINCIPLES OF DISCIPLINE,LOYALTY AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP.

Area of benefit: OLDHAM

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 unrestricted reserves (free assets) stood at £281,096.19 at the end of the period, derived from bank and cash balances. The trustees report that the council continues to adopt changes in line with updates to the Scout Association's Programme of Review.

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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Susan Allenchair
• BARRY RATCLIFFE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Body
• Christopher Paul Taylor
• Colin Anthony Baker · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Riley
• Jack Roland Ratcliffe
• Sharon Bohanna
• Stephen Exton

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

Operates in: Oldham

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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