RIPON AND DISTRICT SCOUTS

Registered charity 524790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RIPON AND DISTRICT BOY SCOUTS LOCAL ASSOCIATION

Our charity provides the human resources to give education and training , sport and recreation to children and young people.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIALS AS INDIVIDUALS, AS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS AND AS MEMBERS OF THEIR LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES.

Area of benefit: RIPON 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 · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £4,963.33 for the year ending 31 March 2026, with total reserves standing at £72,041.80. The trustees report that these reserves are above the stated policy target of approximately £2,000 (equivalent to 12 months' running costs). The filing confirms that resources are adequate to continue charitable activities, noting that the District was closed by County in November 2025 but financial transactions continued pending appeals.

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 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 13/05/2024, 103 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrea Jane Taylor
• Donna Louice Fleming
• Ian Bardon
• John Robert Lockwood
• Jonathan Neil Goom · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL JOHN COLLINS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matilda Law
• Samantha Mason
• Sarah Slade

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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• BISHOP CREIGHTON HOUSE SETTLEMENT income £845k
• OPERATION REACH income £61k
• RPD FOUNDATION income £110k
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Side by side with its peers

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