LINCOLN DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 522385 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LINCOLN AND DISTRICT BOY SCOUTS LOCAL ASSOCIATION

Provide support and activities to over 1500 young people of all abilities and religions from the ages of 4 to 25 years.Encourage teamwork and personal development through a wide range of scouting activities. Giving our youth member skills for life.

Objects

LINCOLN AND DISTRICT BOY SCOUTS LOCAL ASSOCIATION

Area of benefit: LINCOLN AND DISTRICT

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an operating surplus of £4,664 for the year ended 31 March 2026, compared to a loss in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds totalled £218,664, with no stated reserves policy target provided for comparison.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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
• 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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTINE ELIZABETH JACKSONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Faye Marie Niblett
• Hannah Danielle Mountain
• Jonathan Hadleigh
• Lee William Evans · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lucy Emily Dell
• Mark Duncan Campbell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew McGuire · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• LEWISHAM DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £470k
• BRADFORD SOUTH DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £106k
• PENNINE SCOUT DISTRICT GM income £166k
• SALISBURY AND SOUTH WILTS DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £191k
• Redbridge District Scout Council income £158k
• WILTSHIRE NORTH DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £209k

Side by side with its peers

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