## **1st NORTHWOOD SCOUT** ## **ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023** ## **SUMMARY** |**2021/2022**
**General Funds**|**2022/2023**| |---|---| |**£**
23,305
Total Receipts for the year (see page 5)
14,942
Total Payments for the year (see page 6)
8,362
Net surplus/shortfall for the year
53,582
General Funds at 1 April 2022
61,944
General Funds at 31 March 2023|**£**
29,526
18,171| ||11,355
61,944| ||73,299| ## **These accounts have been drawn up on a cash basis.** Approved by the Trustees on ………….……….. 2023 And signed on their behalf by ……………………….……… Page 1 ## **1st NORTHWOOD SCOUT GROUP** ## **ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023 SUMMARY (Continued)** ## **ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AS AT 31 MARCH 2023** ||**31/03/22**|||**31/03/23**|**31/03/23**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Assets**
Cash at bank:|||| ||||Group-General Funds||| ||2,689
14,245
27
35,626
-
52,588|



|Natwest Current Account
CAF Account
Natwest Reserve (savings) Account
Redwood Bank savings accounts
Cambridge & Counties savings accounts|4,473
5,732
3,033
30,922
20,000|64,160| ||||Sections'Accounts||| ||2,391
6,966|
|Cubs - Lloyds Account
Scouts & Beavers - HSBC Account|1,793
7,347|| ||9,356||||9,139| ||**61,944**|**Total cash at bank**|||**73,299**| ||||||| ||**61,944**
39,088
13,500
9,356|**Total Assets**
**Reserve Funds**(Note 4)
Group - General Funds
Group - provision for failure of Jumble Sale
Sections’ Funds|||**73,299**
50,160
14,000
9,139| ||**61,944**
**-**|**Total Reserve Funds**
**Liabilities**
[The Group has no liabilities]|||**73,299**
**-**| Page 2 ## **1st NORTHWOOD SCOUT GROUP** ## **RECEIPTS & PAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023** |**2021/22**
**£**
**RECEIPTS**|**2021/22**
**£**
**RECEIPTS**|**2022/23**
**£**
**£**| |---|---|---| ||7,162
Membership Subs & contribution for Section activities|9,926| ||2,954
less paid to District/Headquarters (see Note 1)
4,208
203
Interest on bank/savings account
1,176
Donations
-
Other Receipts
-
Gift Aid reimbursement
**Fund-raising**|6,837
3,089
321
1,359
280
828| ||-
Jumble Sale (Note 2)|19,914
3,735
23,649
-
-| ||5,850
Other
5,850
**COVID Grants**
11,867
Grants received
11,867|| ||**23,305**
**Total Receipts for the year**|**29,526**| Page 3 ## **1st NORTHWOOD SCOUT GROUP** ## **RECEIPTS & PAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023** ||**2021/22**|**2022/2023**|**2022/2023**| |---|---|---|---| ||**£**
**PAYMENTS**
**Premises**|**£**
630
117
1,181
711
448
-
2,501
2,273
1,816
2,491
1,864
3,768|**£**| ||630
Rent||| ||73
Water Rates
1,288
Electricity
627
Insurance
1,257
Maintenance
2,509
New Hut
6,384
**Activities**||3,087| ||1,585
Vehicle running costs||| ||2,312
Other Group expenses
877
Beavers
1,455
Cubs
1,811
Scouts
8,039
**Fund-raising**
362
Jumble Sale (Note 2)
362
**Administration**
42
AGM
115
Bank charges
**14,942**
**Total Payments for the Year**||10,945
3,768
227
144
**18,171**| Page 4 ## **1st NORTHWOOD SCOUT GROUP** ## **ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023** NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS ## **Note 1 Subscriptions** The Group paid two years' subscriptions to the REN District in the 2022/23 Financial Year. At the District's request, we paid the 2023/24 subscription a couple of weeks early, in late March 2023. |**Note**|**2**|**Jumble Sale**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |||The cost incurred in financial year 2021/22 was the deposit to hire the marquee||| |||for the May 2022 jumble sale. Similarly, the 2022/23 expenditure includes a||| |||£345 deposit to hire the marquee for the May 2023 jumble sale.||| ||||**2021/22**|**2022/23**| ||||**£**|**£**| |||Income|-|19,914| |||Expenditure|362|3,768| ||||-362|16,146| |**Note**|**3**|**Fixed Assets:**||| |||At the start of the financial year 2022/23 the Group held the following assets||| |||which were never capitalised:||| |which were never capitalised:||| |---|---|---| |**Buildings**|**Year of**
**Purchase**|**Original**
**Cost in £**| |Foundations & landscaping|2018|181,564| |Wooden Scout Centre superstructure|2019|148,843| |Replacement for Neal Hut|2020|2,988| |Concrete store shed|1990|1,771| |Insured value of Scout Centre:|£163,316|| |**Note**|**4**|**Reserves Policy**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |||The central Group cash reserve stands at £64,160 which includes provision for||| |||the following:||| ||||£|| |||Provision for failure of next year's Jumble Sale|14,000|| |||Reserve for replacement of minibus|16,500|| |||Building Reserve|9,500|| |||Working Capital|24,160|| ||||**64,160**|| **Note 5 Going concern** It is the Trustees opinion (as confirmed at the 19 October 2022 Committee meeting) that the Scout Group’s finances are sound. A further reserve has been identified in the event that it is necessary to cancel the 2023 jumble sale, enabling the Group to continue operations on a going concern basis. **Note 6 Related party transactions** There were no Related Party transactions. **Note 7 Remuneration** Trustees and all scout leaders are volunteers who receive no remuneration, but are reimbursed for out of pocket expenses they incur on behalf of the Group's scouting activities. Page 5 **1st Northwood Scout Group 87 Northwood Way Middlesex HA6 1RT** ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the Year ended 31st March 2023** The aim of the 1st Northwood Scout Group is to continue to provide quality and exciting Scouting for all the young people in its four sections (Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers). With this in mind the Trustees, who are all members of the Executive Committee, strive to provide adequate funding for the purchase of equipment needed to support Scouting events, pay for Leaders’ uniforms and training, pay the running and maintenance costs of the Group minibus and provide a sound and safe meeting facility. We have continued to support the group buying many items required as the leaders provided a full programme of inside and outside activities. All our usual community activities are gradually being re-established The Group continues to actively seek to recruit Leaders from within the community to replace those that have moved away from the area or retired. Our annual Jumble Sale was held again, after a 3 year gap, and again we have managed to cover costs for the year and make improvements to our premises where necessary. Our Editor continues to produce a regular high-quality Newsletter, which keeps Group Members in touch with activities. The Newsletter is also circulated outside the Group to past members and Scout District officers. The Group is a Trust established under the rules which are common to all Scout Groups. Trustees are appointed in accordance with the Policy, Organisation and Rules of The Scout Association. The accounts have been drawn up on a cash basis. Approved by the Trustees on …9[th] Dec 2023……. and signed on their behalf by …………………………………………………………. Paul Akers (Chairman) ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** RUISLIP EASTCOTE & NORTHWOOD DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL **On accounts for the year Charity no ended**[31 March 2023] **(if any)**[[1066010]] **Set out on pages** 1-5 **Charity no (if any)**[[1066010]] (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 / 03 / 2023** . - **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ > **Date:** 10/ **08/2023 Signed:** _K F Mulvaney_ **Name:** K F Mulvaney **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 43A Hallowell Road Northwood HA6 1DT **October 2018** 1 **IER** **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **October 2018** 2 **IER**