1ST PONTEFRACT SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 524786 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A Scout Troop including Beavers, Cubs, and Scouts from 6 years - 14 years. It's a great way for children to have fun, make friends, to widen their knowledge and encourages them to take part in new activities/experiences. They are encouraged to enjoy new adventures, experience the outdoors, interact with others, gain confidence & take part in regional and international camps.

Objects

UNIT OF THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION.

Area of benefit: PONTEFRACT

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

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

Registered contact address: Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that reserves are kept for future scouting activities. The principal source of funds is identified as membership subscriptions. Expenditure is allocated to running the charity and providing facilities.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER HAND
• JOAN SYCAMORE
• JOANNE HAND
• KEVIN LEE

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

Operates in: City Of Wakefield

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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