THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION-LANCASHIRE EAST

Registered charity 521710 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LANCASHIRE EAST GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION, NORTH-EAST LANCASHIRE GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION, THE GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION LANCASHIRE EAST, THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION-LANCASDHIRE EAST

Girlguiding Lancashire East promotes the aim of Girlguiding, which is to enable girls and young women to develop emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually so they can make a positive contribution to their community and wider world.

Objects

EDUCATING GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN TO HELP THEM DEVELOP EMOTIONALLY, MENTALLY, PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THEIR COMMUNITY AND WIDER WORLD

Area of benefit: NORTH-EAST LANCASHIRE

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Burnley, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £574 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £190,728. The trustees confirmed that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient to continue as a going concern for the next 12 months. No formal reserves policy is acknowledged, but the trustees monitor expenditure regularly.

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 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
• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 10/11/2025, 10 days after the 31/10/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annette Spokes Ellis
• Carol Pike
• Christine Barnes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Harriet Smith
• Hazel Dalton
• Jacqueline Cronshaw
• Katie Ward
• Lorraine Hunt
• Lynne Atherton
• Nicola Smith
• patricia beesley

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen · Lancashire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GIRLGUIDING LANCASHIRE WEST.

• GIRLGUIDING LANCASHIRE WEST income £27k
• THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION EAST YORKSHIRE income £67k
• CAMBRIDGESHIRE EAST GUIDES income £199k
• BERKSHIRE GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £152k
• WORCESTERSHIRE GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £198k
• THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION NORTH WEST ENGLAND income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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