CITY OF COVENTRY SCOUT COUNTY

Registered charity 524586 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITY OF COVENTRY SCOUTS COUNTY, COVENTRY BOY SCOUTS LOCAL ASSOCIATION, COVENTRY SCOUTS

The City of Coventry Scout County provides leadership, advice and support for Scout Districts and, through them, Scout Groups in Coventry. The principle of Scouting is to promote the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potentials, as individuals, as responsible citizens & as members of their local, national & international communities.

Objects

THE INSTRUCTION OF BOYS OF ALL CLASSES IN THE PRINCIPLES OF DISCIPLINE, LOYALTY AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP.

Area of benefit: COVENTRY

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the County's primary income is approximately £17,000 from membership fees, while total expenditure is approximately £23,000, indicating a deficit in core operations. However, the document notes that trading activities at Rough Close and the Trading Post generated surpluses of approximately £17,000 and £15,000 respectively, and the County holds £240,000 in savings.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• 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
• 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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Coventry Scout County (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clive Bennettchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elliot Slingsby
• Jordan Tooth
• Joseph James Vowles
• MR DAVE HART
• MR MIKE PITHAM
• Mark Lee · trustee of 1 other charity
• NIGEL ROBERT STAPLETON
• Phillip James Shaw Cracknell
• Robert Tansey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Tooth
• Tom Newman

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

Operates in: Coventry City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £120k
• KENT COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £1.1m
• SOUTH YORKSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £572k
• WARWICKSHIRE SCOUT COUNCIL income £553k
• HAMPSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £1.5m
• DORSET COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £143k

Side by side with its peers

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