THE LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 522395 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To organise and administer Scouting activities in Lincolnshire

Objects

THE LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL

Area of benefit: LINCOLNSHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a deficit of £8,677 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant improvement from the previous year's deficit of £17,796. Per the trustees' report, total unrestricted reserves stood at £439,630, which the trustees consider to be a small surplus against their policy target of holding one year's running costs (approximately £200,000).

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 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
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Howard Paul NELSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Hugo Richard Durham
• Jessica Verdun May Duffield
• Mark Duncan Campbell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter David Talbot-Jones
• Peter Dominic Williams
• Sarah Jane Baumber
• Susan Elizabeth Newbatt
• Thomas Arthur Morton

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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