WEST LANCASHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 521712 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The aim of the West Lancashire County Scout Council is that of The Scout Association; the purpose of Scouting is to contribute to the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potential; as individuals, as responsible citizens and as members of their local, national and international communities.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £173,650 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £4,052,148. The trustees report that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, and the audit opinion confirms the financial statements give a true and fair view.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by McMillan & Co LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Cath Lee — County Lead Volunteer (source)
• Gail Stanley — County President (source)
• Jean Frew — County Vice President (source)
• Bernard Pendlebury — County Vice President (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~41.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Benedict Charnockchair
• Alexi Louise Foster
• Cartharhyn Elizabeth Hall
• Cathrine Jane Lee
• Charles Peter Bithell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jamie Scudamore
• Jeremy Philip Boardman
• MRS CATH JOYCE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Max Andrew Lowe
• OLIVER WINSTON WOOD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Saber L'Bekkari

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GREATER LONDON NORTH EAST COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL.

• GREATER LONDON NORTH EAST COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £167k
• STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £120k
• SOUTH YORKSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £572k
• WARWICKSHIRE SCOUT COUNCIL income £553k
• CITY OF NEWCASTLE DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £164k
• HAMPSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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