THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION - MIDLANDS

Registered charity 521781 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GIRLGUIDING MIDLANDS, GUIDE ASSOCIATION - MIDLANDS, MIDLAND REGION OF GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION

Girlguiding Midlands enables girls and young women to develop their potential and to make a difference in the world.

Objects

UNIT OF THE GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION

Area of benefit: MIDLANDS

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £4,546 from its activities in 2024, with total net income of £188,564. Per the trustees' report, the charity is heavily reliant on subscription income and aims to operate at a small loss or break even on events. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~18.4 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kirstie Teresa Pogsonchair
• Amelia Smith
• Claire Bampton
• Claire Eleanor Drake
• Claire Lyle
• Dr Sian Davies-Vollum
• Dyanne Sargeant
• JANICE ELIZABETH PRICE · trustee of 1 other charity
• JANITA MACKIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katie Jennings
• Rachel Bridge
• Sarah Jane Myers · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORCESTERSHIRE GUIDE ASSOCIATION.

• WORCESTERSHIRE GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £198k
• HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY GUIDES ASSOCIATION income £248k
• GUIDE ASSOCIATION BUCKINGHAMSHIRE income £228k
• THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £31.6m
• WEST MERCIA COUNTY GUIDES income £195k
• THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION LONDON AND SOUTH EAST ENGLAND REGION income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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