EAST LANCASHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 521711 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOWLEY CAMPSITE AND TRAINING CENTRE, NORTH EAST LANCASHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL, SCOUT ASSOCIATION - EAST LANCASHIRE COUNTY

The support of Scouting within the Scout County of East Lancashire including the operation of Bowley International Scout Centre.

Objects

Area of benefit: 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 · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£146k

Latest spending

£333k

Registered

1965

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves fell significantly from £350,130 to £178,278, driven by a net resource expenditure of £172,286 largely attributed to the deficit on the Bowley campsite. The trustees consider it prudent to hold reserves covering one year's expenditure but note that considerable expenditure was drawn from reserves to maintain the site. Despite the drop, the trustees consider it appropriate to prepare the accounts on a going concern basis given the reserves and resources available.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none

“Membership subscriptions” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: one year’s expenditure (held: £178k)

“The trustees consider it prudent to hold unrestricted reserves to cover one year’s expenditure, including necessary continuing expenditure at Bowley if the site could not generate any income.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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

Cosima Cecilia Towneleychair
ANDREW PATTON
Christopher Robert Taylor
Craig Peter Fishwick
Howard David Alderson-Perkins
Karen Elizabeth Taylor
Leslie Ridings
Melanie Walton
Richard John Marshall
Robert Louis Mason

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen · Lancashire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£146k	£333k
31/03/2024	£107k	£96k
31/03/2023	£178k	£154k
31/03/2022	£78k	£73k
31/03/2021	£58k	£53k

Common questions

Is EAST LANCASHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves fell significantly from £350,130 to £178,278, driven by a net resource expenditure of £172,286 largely attributed to the deficit on the Bowley campsite. The trustees consider it prudent to hold reserves covering one year's expenditure but note that considerable expenditure was drawn from reserves to maintain the site. Despite the drop, the trustees consider it appropriate to prepare the accounts on a going concern basis given the reserves and resources available. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	06/08/2014	£10k	Access For All At Bowley
The National Lottery Community Fund	23/04/2007	£7k	To Purchase Display Equipment to Promote Scouting Within East Lancashire

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE SYLVIA AND COLIN SHEPHERD CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£5k
SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£3k

Charities like this

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

CORNWALL COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £101k
NORTH YORKSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £916k
GREATER MANCHESTER WEST COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £133k
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £267k
CHORLEY DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £200k
BEDFORDSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £210k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
EAST LANCASHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL	£146k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CORNWALL COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL FY2025	£101k	—	above	—	no doubt
NORTH YORKSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL FY2025	£916k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
GREATER MANCHESTER WEST COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL FY2025	£133k	—	above	—	no doubt
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL FY2025	£267k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CHORLEY DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL FY2025	£200k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.