298TH BIRMINGHAM (SILVERMERE) SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 525181 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

scouting for young people

Objects

UNIT OF THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION

Area of benefit: SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total gross income for the year was £27,333 against total gross expenditure of £20,847, resulting in a net surplus. Free/unrestricted reserves (cash funds) stood at £29,614 at the year end, with total net assets reported as £78,153.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Financial reserves 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 09/07/2024, 252 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 05/11/2022, 5 days after the 31/10/2022 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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — 298th Silvermere Scouts (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hannah Precelton-Hall
• Mark Rowe
• Melanie Knight
• Michael Hall
• Samuel Taylor

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

Common questions

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• 1ST/3RD HOUGHTON REGIS SCOUT GROUP income £33k
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Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.