2020-12-31-accounts

All Current Account Balan esasat31 12 2020 Balance 22.121.69 12.258.40 Lloyds Group Lloyds HQ 5antander HQ- aosed on 1311012020 U nited Trust Bank {Investmentsl U nited Trust Bank1100 Day Noti￿) 20,685.70 10,084.16 Total 65,149.95 Equipment Fund- money alIc￿ted Equipment Fund Balance lavallable to spend) Sc(Mrt Camp Balance Gr(xw Account Balance {excludes Equipment Fund & 59 942.70 Pettycash 67.36 Totsl Money in Group 65 217.31 Notes.. Scout Camp Balance is money that is allc(ated from the Group's account5 for the SFecific use at Scout Camps Equipment Fund Balan￿ is money that is allocated from the Group's aeeounts for the specific purchase of equipment U nited Trust Bank {Inve5tments} is money that is allccated in reseNes as contingency in case of large capital expenditure required in an emergency. A minimum of £25k is set aside in the group5 total monev The group executive keeps £15K approximately 6 months running wsts in the groups accounts Hence a total of £40k is allocated to reserve5 and the group aims to keep a minimum of £40k in the accounts at any one time Ithe Equipment Fund and Scout Camp balan￿5 are not included in this £40k total} Cc

Equipment Account Balance

Equipment Account Balance
Equipment Account Balance as at 01/01/2020 Income: Lloyds Account Equipment Income 1,159.26 £ Lloyds HQ Account Equipment Income 308.00 £ Santander Account Equipment Income - £ Cub Camp Equipment Depreciation Allocated from Lloyds Account - £ Cub Camp Equipment Depreciation Allocated from Santander Account - £ Scout Camp Equipment Depreciation Allocated from Lloyds Account - £ Scout Camp Equipment Depreciation Allocated from Santander Account - £ Expenditure: Lloyds Account Equipment Expenditure 1,664.60 £ Lloyds HQ Account Equipment Expenditure - £ Santander Account Equipment Expenditure - £ Money Allocated for Specific Equipment Current Equipment Account Balance	3,705.98 £
	1,467.26 £ 1,664.60 £
	3,508.64 £

Current Equipment Account Balance

The Equipment Account Balance is money that is stored in the Lloyds Account.

This money is set aside for the purchase of new equipment for the group that the members will use (large scale purcahses), e.g. camping kit, activity kit such as climbing or kayaking etc.

Money for equipment comes from fundraising (marquee hire, St Lawrence Fair, use of kit by Knights Explorers etc) and from the depreciation/use of kit at the annual Cub and Scout Camps.

Scout Camp Account Balance

Scout Camp Account Balance
Scout Camp Account Balance as at 01/01/20 Income: Lloyds Account Scout Camp Income 1,500.00 £ Santander Account Scout Camp Income - £ Scout Troop Account Scout Camp Income - £ Expenditure: Lloyds Account Scout Camp Expenditure 1,511.99 £ Santander Account Scout Camp Expenditure - £ Scout Troop Account Scout Camp Expenditure - £ Scout Camp Equipment Depreciation Allocated from Lloyds Account - £ Scout Camp Equipment Depreciation Allocated from Santander Account - £ Current Scout Camp Account Balance	1,710.60 £
	1,500.00 £ 1,511.99 £ - £
	1,698.61 £

The Scout Camp Account Balance is money that is stored in the Lloyds Account.

This money is set aside for Scout Section Camps and acts as a contingency if there is a loss at the camp. Money is also available to support disadvantaged families in sending their child to Scout Camp. Money for Scout Camp comes from fees paid by the participants to attend the camps.

As there were no camps in 2020 any monies paid were refunded. These refunds were credited as expenses and show up in expenditure

1st Hurstpierpoint Scout Group - Income & Expenditure Account 01/01/20 - 31/12/20

HQ Lettings Scout Group Use Fund Raising Interest Grants Maintenance Building Work/Refurbishments Cleaning Misc Gas Electricity Water Telephone Insurance Sub-total Group Camps Activities Subs Gift Aid HQ Use Kayaking Interest Membership fees Meetings - Beavers Meetings - Cubs Meetings - Scouts Group Badges Insurance Training Uniform/Group Clothing Sub-total Group Equipment Use/Camp Depreciation Grants Fund Raising Interest Other Equipment Sub-total TOTAL Transfers Total including Transfers	INCOME £4,908.47 £3,519.00 £0.00 £11,334.00 £0.00 £19,761.47 £2,340.00 £0.00 £13,702.50 £3,755.68 £0.00 £469.86 £0.00 £5.00 £819.00 £33.99 £21,126.03 £308.00 £425.98 £63.28 £670.00 £1,467.26 £42,354.76 £20,560.98 £62,915.74	EXPENDITURE £0.00 £3,062.60 £4,438.84 £2,550.00 £767.28 £977.59 £963.32 £527.02 £259.20 £2,077.21 £15,623.06 £2,351.99 £0.00 £3,519.00 £1,113.95 £6,350.00 £205.95 £655.50 £236.34 £1,842.75 £881.90 £84.00 £2,081.00 £443.46 £19,765.84 £1,664.60 £1,664.60
		£37,053.50
		£20,610.98 £57,664.48

Lloyds Group Closing balance Opening Balance Income Expenditure Statement Calculation variance £ 29,233.00 £ 33,019.43 £ 40,130.74 £ 22,121.69 £ 22,121.69 £ - HQ £ 11,334.00 £ 2,219.30 Group £ 20,526.17 £ 16,246.84 Equipment £ 1,159.26 £ 1,664.60 Transfers £ - £ 20,000.00 Santander - Closed on 13/10/2020 £ 2,826.37 £ 130.00 £ 2,956.37 £ - -£ 0.00 £ (0.00) HQ £ - £ 2,395.39 Group £ 130.00 £ - Equipment £ - £ - Transfers £ - £ 560.98 Lloyds HQ £ 7,451.43 £ 15,777.45 £ 10,970.48 £ 12,258.40 £ 12,258.40 £ - HQ £ 4,908.47 £ 10,970.48 Group £ - £ - Equipment £ 308.00 £ - Transfers £ 10,560.98 £ - United Trust Bank £ 20,300.00 £ 385.70 £ - £ 20,685.70 £ 20,685.70 £ - Group £ 385.70 £ - Transfers £ - £ - United Trust Bank 100 Day Notice £ - £ 10,084.16 £ - £ 10,084.16 £ 10,084.16 £ - Group £ 84.16 £ - Transfers £ 10,000.00 £ - Petty Cash £ 105.25 £ 50.00 £ 87.89 £ 67.36 £ 67.36 £ - HQ £ - £ 37.89 Group £ - £ - Transfers £ 50.00 £ 50.00 TOTAL £ 59,916.05 £ 59,446.74 £ 54,145.48 £ 65,217.31 £ 65,217.31 £ (0.00)

INCOME

INCOME
		Lloyds		Santander	Lloyds HQ		**United Trust **		United Trust			Petty Cash		Balance			TOTAL
Equipment	£	1,159.26	£	-	£	308.00	£	-	£		-	£	-	£	-	£	1,467.26
Group	£	20,526.17	£	130.00	£	-	£	385.70	£		84.16	£	-	£	-	£	21,126.03
HQ	£	11,334.00	£	-	£	4,908.47	£	-	£		-	£	-	£	3,519.00	£	19,761.47
Transfer In	£	-	£	-	£	10,560.98	£	-	£	10,000.00		£	50.00	£	-	£	20,610.98
	£	33,019.43	£	130.00	£	15,777.45	£	385.70	£	10,084.16		£	50.00	£	3,519.00	£	62,965.74
Statement	£	33,019.43	£	130.00	£	15,777.45	£	385.70	£	10,084.16		£	50.00	£	3,519.00	£	62,965.74
Variance	£	0.00	£	-	£	-	£	-	£		-	£	-	£	-	£	-
EXPENDITURE
		Lloyds		Santander	Lloyds HQ		**United Trust **		United Trust			Petty Cash		Balance			TOTAL
Equipment	£	1,664.60	£	-	£	-	£	-	£		-	£	-	£	-	£	1,664.60
Group	£	16,246.84	£	-	£	-	£	-	£		-	£	-	£	3,519.00	£	19,765.84
HQ	£	2,219.30	£	2,395.39	£	10,970.48	£	-	£		-	£	37.89	£	-	£	15,623.06
Transfer Out	£	20,000.00	£	560.98	£	-	£	-	£		-	£	50.00	£	-	£	20,610.98
	£	40,130.74	£	2,956.37	£	10,970.48	£	-	£		-	£	87.89	£	3,519.00	£	57,664.48
Statement	£	40,130.74	£	2,956.37	£	10,970.48	£	-	£		-	£	87.89	£	3,519.00	£	57,664.48
Variance	£	-	£	-	£	-	£	-	£		-	£	-	£	-	£	-

Scouts 1st Hurstpierpoint Annual Report 2020 Saturday 15th May 2021

Group Scout Leader Report

This year has been an unusual one. We started out well with two Beaver Colonies, two Cub Packs and two Scout Troops carrying on normally with good numbers and plenty of Leaders/Young Leaders except Tuesday Beavers where we need some more adult help.

With lockdown in late March regular meetings were not possible but our Leaders took up the challenge and provided many Zoom sessions to keep the young people engaged. A small number of Face-to-Face sessions were possible when lockdown was temporarily eased.

We held a virtual weekend Cub Camp and a week virtual Scout Camp.

We had some loss of letting income for the Scout HQ over the year but had a Government Covid grant to tide us over. We hope that restrictions will ease later this year.

The HQ has been kept clean and the buildings and grounds have been maintained over the year and I thank the members of the Scout Executive Committee for their support over this difficult time.

Finally, I would like to thank the hard work of our Leaders, the support of our parents and the participation of our young members over this challenging year.

Rodney Jackson Group Scout Leader

Newtimber Sections Report

Beaver Scouts started 2020 in normal fashion working towards the teamwork challenge badge in the Spring term; we played team games, had group craft activities and colony discussions. We also cooked and learned about kitchen hygiene and safety for the cooks badge. Everything changed with the introduction of the national lockdown and the Spring term programme was cut short.

Our Summer term moved to weekly Zoom meetings aiming for the skills challenge badge and digital citizen, animal friend and book reader activity badges. The programme started with NHS tributes and an amazing round of fundraising endeavours from the Beaver Scouts and leaders. Over £1100 was raised for NHS charities in Sussex by the Beaver Scout colonies. We had a talent show, introduced everyone’s pets, talked about favourite books and toys, made bookmarks, paper helicopters, paper sunglasses, learned magic tricks, made junk models, decorated biscuits. We had a visit on Zoom with a falconry expert with birds of prey and finished with a fancy-dress party. Work at home booklets allowed all of the activities to be followed without having to Zoom.

In Autumn we stayed online as the rules did not permit the full group to meet at the HQ. The adventure challenge badge was our target and we started by creating obstacle courses at home! The kids made dens, camped at home, cooked meals, climbed trees, and learned the Green Cross Code. For remembrance we encouraged the Beaver Scouts to visit the war memorial and talked about local soldiers. On top of it all we filled in with a huge repertoire of Zoom games, discussions, and craft activities.

As well as all the challenge and activity badges in 2020, we also presented 5 Chief Scout bronze awards.

Guy Macken Newtimber Beaver Leader

Wolstonbury Sections Report

Looking back right to the beginning of 2020 including working on the teamwork challenge badge including games in the dark and traversing wall and even a bit of cooking. Then lockdown hit disrupting the latter part of the spring term.

That did not stop Wolstonbury Beavers; Cat, Guy and I combined to launch our Zoom sessions. These were busy; we covered a number of badges including the skills and adventure challenge badge, from making beds to creating assault courses in back gardens and parks.

One of the great things this year was that we were able to take part in things like camp@home, St George’s Day promise on the doorstep, Remembrance poppies and even the West Sussex summer challenge.

We also had an amazing 5 Chief Scout Bronze award earned during this time and lots more almost completed so keep up the hard work.

Over the year we have had the same few faces appearing on the Zoom screen each session, but the help has not stopped there from Dan and Finn, our young leaders who completed their Young Leaders belt buckle and Matt who was going out delivering badge certificates for the Beavers. Unfortunately, we do need more leaders to join the team going forward so if you can lend a hand, please do step forward.

We are looking forward to the future, we are hoping to continue the adventure and experiences with more badges and awards being earned.

Sonia Baker

Membership Secretary On behalf of Wolstonbury Beavers

Voyagers Section Report

It was a very strange year for the Voyagers pack with covid19 closing down face to face meetings and all of the leaders having to figure out how to use Zoom! Which led to some very interesting moments like trying to teach paracord by Zoom which was interesting to say the least. We did a virtual camp with a theme of pirates and lots of Cubs camping in the garden and in dens around their houses to gain nights away. We (Sonia!) provided workbooks for the Cubs to work through at home for those who did not like using Zoom.

Topics covered during our Zoom sessions have been, map reading, drumming, paracord bracelets, escape room.

We have achieved six chief scout silver awards with some Cubs putting some great effort to

complete.

We gained a new section assistant in Darren while both Paul and Przemek are working towards completing their leader training. So, bring on the adventure. Thanks to all who have helped along the way and I hope more will join us in our 2021 adventures.

Paul - Voyagers Akela

Adventurers Section Report

Well 2020 was a different year wasn’t it. We started out with lots of great plans and managed to get through most of the Spring Term. This involved the Cubs learning some DIY skills and putting them in to practice with some boat building. We also did a trip to the local fire station where they got a tour of the fire engine and the opportunity to spray water from the hoses. A couple of other highlights included a visit from Reptylers and a night hike with sleepover.

April saw us have to introduce a different way of scouting as everything went online and suddenly Zoom was the word of the year. We managed to continue offering a varied programme of both online activities and home working booklets. Thanks must go to Sonia for organising a lot of the paperwork behind the scenes and keeping up to date with the changing circumstances. We did scavenger hunts, quizzes, making projects and guest contributions including a magician, drumming teacher and birds of prey. We even managed a stay-at-home pirate themed Cub camp.

Thanks again go to the other leaders who help keep everything running. Gareth and Finley both stepped up from Young Leaders to full adult helpers which is excellent, Martin and Adam have continued in their roles and we have two new Young Leaders in Madeline and Ryan. Without a strong team of leaders, it wouldn’t be possible to do all the things we do.

We are all looking forward to getting back to face-to-face meetings and 2021 will bring an opportunity to get back outdoors and do the things we love.

Thanks

Steve - Adventurers Akela

Thursday Scouts Section Report

What a different year 2020 was compared to what we thought it would be like at the start of the year. The spring term started off with some navigation, dark games and then a four-week rotation of archery, war hammer and light graffiti. Our final evening before we moved into the first lockdown involved some cooking and baking, with all of the term’s activities helping to count as activities towards different parts of the challenge badges.

The first lock down hit us in the middle of March, but a few weeks later at the beginning of April we had done our first virtual meeting doing a scavenger hunt around the house. We continued with our virtual meetings every other week coming up with new and different activities to try. These included a virtual bingo

evening, quiz, escape rooms, monopoly run and game shows. We also had a guest magician come in over Zoom and show us some magic tricks and teach a few of them too.

Even though we weren't able to have our regular summer camp, we ran a virtual camp, meeting up daily to do different activities and games and getting the Scouts to sleep in different locations in and outside of the house for the week, rather than their usual bed! We even managed to have a virtual campfire to finish the week off with.

Our virtual meetings continued right through the summer and continued into September with a murder mystery, battleships, family fortunes and then finished off our virtual meetings with a guest drummer teaching us how to do some basic drumming.

Then in October, we managed to get a couple of face-to-face meetings in, seeing the Scouts once where we created our poppies for the group display at the Scout HQ. We then went back into lockdown for a month where we restarted our virtual meeting doing Pictowords and Among Us. Then in December we were able to meet up again in our limited group numbers and we made paracord Christmas trees.

Even though the virtual sessions were not for all, the Scouts that took part had a great time. For those that didn’t do the virtual sessions workbooks for different badges were available, given the Scouts a chance to try some of the badges we don’t normally do.

It was great to see so many badges being earnt, even though we didn’t have many face-to-face meetings. When we did meet face to face it was great seeing all the Scouts again. We are all looking forward to meeting face to face again and being able to camp together again.

Thanks to all the leaders and young leaders who helped throughout the year. Smiley - Scout Leader

Friday Scouts Section Report

Over the last year almost all online Friday Scouts have solved a few murders, had a drumming session and a magic show. They have also escaped from some rooms, defended their camp, looked at maps and Scouting in other countries. They created a few objects and the origami throwing stars seemed to go well (my grandchildren had fun with mine). We also achieved a fair few badge including ones that are often difficult to achieve. Some of the Scouts also attended a virtual summer camp. I would like to thank all the leaders and Scouts who have taken part over the past year. Online scouting is often harder than face-to-face and hope we can all look forward to normal Scouting soon. Derek – Scout Leader

Hurstpierpoint Treasurers 2020 Report

	2020	2020		2019	2019
Opening Balance	As at 01/01/20	£59,916.05		As at 01/01/19	£60,280.75
Closing Balance	As at 31/12/20	£65,217.31		As at 31/12/19	£59,916.05
	Income	Expenditure		Income	Expenditure
HQ – Lettings	£4,908.47			£14,723.92
HQ – Other	£14,853.00	£2,844.49		£4,142.00	£1,848.00
HQ – Maintenance		£3,062.60			£2,359.21
HQ – Refurbishments		£4,438.84			£5,012.45
HQ – Cleaning		£2,550.00			£4,712.71
HQ – Utilities		£2,727.13			£3,539.55
Group – Subs	£13,702.50			£15,121.00
Group – Camp	£2,340.00	£2,351.99		£5,872.50	£9,563.56
Group - Gift Aid	£3,755.68			£3,272.13
Group – Other	£1,327.85	£11,063.85		£605.00	£9,949.36
Group – Membership		£6,350.00			£6,566.00
Equipment - Use/Fund Raising	£1,467.26			£2,486.24
Equipment – Purchases		£1,664.00			£3,037.15
Totals	£42,354.76	£37,053.50		£46,223.29	£46,587.99

The group executive has agreed to keep £25,000 in contingency and £15,000 for six months running costs of the group and HQ and this has been maintained.

Due to Covid and the HQ having to close, the lettings income was significantly less to previous years. However, this was compensated by the government grants we received. Further to the HQ closure, it meant that our expenditure on utilities and cleaning were significantly less compared to previous years.

At the beginning of the year, we started taking deposits for camps, but refunds were offered due to the camps not been able to take place.

Even though the sections were limited on meeting face to face, there was still Group expenditure to support the virtual meetings.

A full breakdown of the accounts can be seen on the Charity Commission website.

Knights Explorer Scout Unit

2020 certainly provided to be a different year to normal. Our weekly meetings started the year off with some Trangia cooking and some highly creative meals created by the Explorers in their groups. We then had a catchphrase evening, a rotation of archery, microbits and brain puzzles and a wide game. Just before we were forced to stop face to face meetings in March, we were lucky enough to have a trip out Go Karting in Crawley, which all the Explorers and leaders enjoyed!

Even though most of the year was wiped out for nights away we did manage some at the beginning of the year. In February we were able to have a pizza sleepover at the HQ, where we helped with some gardening and maintenance on the HQ grounds. Then in the beginning of March we attended Alternative Monopoly Run camping at Scout Park in London. At this event the Explorers had to go around London in teams visiting locations on the Monopoly board taking photos and competing against other Explorers from all over the country. The previous week before this we attended a one-day event in London called Monopoly Run Live, where the Explorers visited locations in London and had to check in to buy properties and beat other teams in their league. London was certainly very quiet both weekends we were there in March.

After the lockdown started in March, we were quick to start our online virtual sessions. This was certainly new to us all and we had to work out a variety of different activities. These activities included Pictionary, bingo, quizzes, escape rooms, game shows, Bronze summer challenge, what 3 words, taskmaster to name a few of the activities. We also had a couple of guests come in which included a magician and also a drumming session. Our virtual sessions ran weekly right from the end of March to the end of September, when at the beginning of October, we were able to return to face-to-face meetings with limited numbers. Our first session back was a pizza night and campfire, which gave us all a good chance to catch up. We were able to fit in one more session before the second lockdown in November where we created sun catchers for the Hurstpierpoint Scout Group remembrance display at the HQ. When restrictions were lifted in December, we were able to meet up again and have a Christmas craft evening. We finished our year off with our annual Knights Awards and had a special guest Zoom in to help with the evening. Thank you to Mike from Scoutadelic (a Scout YouTube channel) who did this for us.

Even though we weren’t able to do any Duke of Edinburgh expeditions this year, a large number of the unit are still involved in the award scheme and were able to continue with volunteering, skills and physical sections. A number completed these for their awards and were able to move onto the next level. It is great to see a good number of the Explorers help out at other sections in Hurst Scout Group as young leaders.

Throughout the second part of the year, we said goodbye to several Explorers who turned 18 and had been right through Beavers, Cubs and Scouts in Hurst. 5 of these have decided to stay on and volunteer at Cubs, Scouts and Explorers, which we are really pleased about and are a great asset to Hurst. We have also had a number of new Explorers move up to us from Scouts.

We are all looking forward to getting back to camping when we can safely do so in 2021 and continuing the great success, we have had the past few years.

Smiley & Sonia - Explorer Leaders

We are Scouting for help!

Our friendly leadership team is always kept busy and open to new members joining the team. Please check out just some of the things you could help us with and make all the difference!

CAN YOU BUILD A DEN?

Building dens is a real treat when you are seven, and even more fun when your are an adult! We need you to come along to Beavers and support your young people!

Not just build dens, but help do map work, craft, hiking and even make stuff from bits of wood (we call pioneering). What we need is an extra pair of hands to help the leaders provide these fantastic activities.

If you are interested in helping at BEAVERS then please email Sonia on [e-mail]

CONFIDENCE-BUILDERS WANTED

We’re looking for someone who can encourage our young people to take that leap, make that jump, get up and carry on regardless. From map reading to crate stacking it’s all about having the confidence to give it a go.

You will also have great opportunities to learn new skills and have your own amazing adventure.

Sounds like you?

Contact Sonia on [e-mail]

CLIMB TO NEW HEIGHTS

Would you like the chance to go camping, climbing, potholing, make a difference in the community while helping to prepare young people with skills for life? As a section leader you will do all of this and more, using your skills and learning new ones.

As part of 1st Hurstpierpoint Scout Group, you will help plan and deliver a safe and exciting programme for young people, making sure every young person gets the chance to spend at least one night away each year.

You'll use your energy and creativity to help young people have fun, develop their potential and earn a wide range of badges and awards. Of course you won't have to do this alone - a team of group leaders, supporters, parents and the young people themselves will help you plan and deliver a programme. But it's your enthusiasm and sense of fun and adventure that will inspire them.

Want to find out more? Contact Sonia on [e-mail]