GLAMORGAN WEST AREA SCOUT COUNCIL

Registered charity 524963 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GLAMORGAN WEST AREA COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL, GLAMORGAN WEST COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL, WEST GLAMORGAN COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL

To provide leadership, advice and support for all Scout Groups, Explorer Scout Units and Active Support Units situated within the City & County of Swansea and the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot local authority areas.

Objects

UNIT OF THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Area's finances remain stable despite significant capital expenditure on property. The Treasurer reports that net income increased due to account closures and minibus bookings, while major costs included the purchase of the Gorseinon property and various operational expenses. Reserves are held in savings and notice accounts, with a total closing balance for cash, investments, and bank balances of £417,468.88 across all entities.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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 policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Diane Taylor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Graham Peter Rees-Evans
• Mr Steve Jones
• Paula Morris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Roger Rees-Evans · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: City Of Swansea · Neath Port Talbot

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GREATER LONDON, SOUTH WEST COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL.

• GREATER LONDON, SOUTH WEST COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £202k
• MACCLESFIELD AND CONGLETON DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £212k
• WOKING DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £106k
• SOUTHAMPTON CITY DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £125k
• CARDIFF AND VALE AREA SCOUT COUNCIL income £173k
• GREATER MANCHESTER WEST COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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