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2020-12-31-accounts

East London District

Scout Council

Annual Report and Accounts For the year ended 31[st] December 2020

East London District Scout Council Incorporating the London Boroughs of Hackney and Tower Hamlets

Vice President: Mr P Final Vice President: Mr A Hands Trustees: Ex-Officio – District Scout Officers : District Chairman Mr A Hands District Commissioner Mr J Ellison District Treasurer District Secretary Ms V Constans District Youth Commissioner District Explorer Scout Commissioner Mr K Bridge District Network Commissioner Mr B Gray

Trustees: Nominated: Trustees: Elected : Mr G Davis Miss C Carpenter Mrs J Bridge Trustees: Co-opted: Mr B Bench Mr C Greenslade Ms K Leggett

Bankers: Unity Trust Bank Plc, Nine Brindley Place, Birmingham, B1 2HB

Custodian Trustees: The Scout Association

Charity Registration Number : 1114589

Organisation

The Scout District is led by a District Commissioner and managed by a District Executive Committee. The District Executive Committee exists to support the District Commissioner in meeting the responsibilities of their appointment and is accountable to the East London District Scout Council for the satisfactory running of the District.

The East London District Scout Council is an unincorporated charitable association under the umbrella of the Scout Association. It operates within the guidelines laid down in Policy, Organisation and Rules by the Scout Association.

The District Executive meets formally five times a year and is responsible for:

Our Mission

Scouting actively engages and supports young people in their personal development, empowering them to make a positive contribution to society.

District Commissioner

On paper 2020 might not seem a remarkable year for Scouting in East London:

2020 was not an unremarkable year for the world and the immediate response of our leaders is something that we should all be proud of. Our Swimming Gala on 14[th] March was cancelled because the Crew were growing worried about the potential dangers of a new virus epidemic. On the 16[th] March their judgement was borne out when all faceto-face meetings in the UK ended and our district moved quickly to provide a range of other ways to connect with our members (and the odd Zoom meeting.) Whilst visiting group AGMs this year I’ve been proud to hear parents talk about how The Scouts adapted better and more quickly than their child’s school and how Cubs (using a Zoom account borrowed from work) was the one shred of normality and outside contact that their child still had.

Our section leaders have been outstanding – beginning monthly leaders meetings in April to sync up and share ideas. All groups had returned to some form of meeting by Easter except for our two smallest groups who will need our support to reform and flourish in the 2021/22 school year. Some of you were called on nationally for programme support, you opened Early Years Pilot sections and were a key workers completing jobs to keep the country running before logging on to Zoom. However, all of you did your best and helped improve the lives of our members and their communities through things like acts of kindness, contact with care homes, races around the world, camping at home and The Great Indoors. This will be borne out in next year’s AGM report and the colossal number of Good Service Awards being presented for the work done this year.

Thanks should also go to our sub-committees: the appointments committee who had made the transition to online by Easter and successfully caught up on (and overtook) a small backlog from opening 2 new groups; the Bouverie Road committee who saw the hall & kitchen put to use in the urgent response to the crisis and kept up on essential maintenance; and the Campground Committee who first mothballed Fairmead and then brought it back into service for day visitors so that we could bring our city groups out into Epping Forest.

Our biggest challenge comes next: in helping some groups back onto their feet, and opening new groups for the increasing waiting list numbers; in bringing back normal Scouting without making our leaders look like superheroes that family members could never hope to match up to if they volunteered; and in making sure that we bring Skills For Life and Scouting to All.

Jon Ellison

District Commissioner

District Chair

2020 was a difficult year for our youth members and their families due to the impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic. We were able to fund high quality engaging face to face activities including Go Karting and a Giant sleepover at a trampoline park, before national and local Covid-19 related restrictions took effect in March.

No longer able to meet face to face from March resulted in a concern that our youth members would experience:

East London Scouting was needed more in 2020 than at any time in the last 80 years and rose to the challenge. Our volunteers pivoted their activities / weekly programme to online, supplementing with paper resources and dropping them into the children who struggled for digital access. Our youth members completed over 6,000 badges during this period which was a remarkable achievement.

We are fortunate to have so many volunteers who give up their time to engage and support young people in their personal development, whilst empowering them to think of others in need across Hackney and Tower Hamlets. Our leaders have been outstanding providing support for our local communities throughout the pandemic. Their resilience through these tough times has been incredible and I have so much respect for each and every one of them for what they achieved with our youth members during a very tough year.

In addition to all those working directly with young people on programme delivery we had a variety of teams helping to ensure our governance, safeguarding, safety, risk assessments, support, tools, finances and facilities are outstanding. A big thank you to our District Badge Secretary, and our volunteers looking after our premises ‘Charles Watts Memorial Hall’ in Bouverie Road, and our volunteers looking after our Fairmead Scout camp site. You are all making a huge difference.

Our income dropped from £15,111 to £10,937 (Bouverie Road) and £16,661 to £3,205 (Fairmead Camp Site) but we have made these facilities Covid-19 safe and continued to make improvements in preparation for young people returning to face to face activities in 2021.

We are very thankful to generous financial supporters of East London Scouting. Their funding has made it possible to provide activity badges at 50% of cost, provide free District/ County badges, subsidise the cost of membership for our youth members, run free adult training events, provide funding for a programme of activities building skills for life. Their funding will help us roar back into action.

Thank you to:

We are continuing to reach out to potential funders to enable us to expand further and provide better Scouting for more young people. If you are able to introduce us to a potential funder please let us know .

2021 is the year we bounce back and ramp up our support for our youth members across Hackney and Tower Hamlets. Let’s all look forward to making a big impact in the year ahead. Thank you for your service and dedication.

Alan Hands

District Chair

Time to celebrate – congratulations to the following:

Jack Petchey Achiever Award – young people:

Chief Scout’s 10 year Service Award

Chief Scouts 15 year Service Award  Judy Phillips

Chief Scouts 30 year Service Award  Joan Bridge

Jack Petchey Leader Award

Chief Scouts 60 year Service Award

Good Service Awards:

Training

Silver Wolf

Wood Badges:

Award of Merit

Long service:

Chief Scout’s 5 year Service Award

Please note that not all awards have yet been received or presented due to delays resulting from Covid-19 restrictions / reduction in resources within Headquarters Awards team. Your patience is appreciated.

Annual census of membership at 31[st] January 2021

Group / Unit Number
Young People		 Number of
Adults		 Total
East London Scout District– officers, active
support unit, Explorer leaders		 32 32
East London Explorer Scouts 33 33
2nd East London 106 36 142
3rd Bethnal Green 11 6 17
4th Poplar 5 5
4th Stoke Newington 37 9 46
5th Tower Hamlets 58 18 76
7th Stoke Newington 28 10 38
8th East London 45 25 70
9th Stepney 10 8 18
10th Stepney 21 10 31
14th Hackney 48 9 57
16th East London 52 56 108
23rd Poplar 51 19 70
29th Hackney 3 3
63rd Hackney 15 2 17
65th Hackney 4 4
Total 515 251 767

East London District Scout Council. Registered Charity Number 1114589

EAST LONDON DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[st] DECEMBER 2020

Income
Programme - Activities
Programme – Badges
Campsite fees and electricity charge
Hall hire – Bouverie Road
Donations and grants
Membership subscriptions
Miscellaneous income
Bank and building society interest
Total Income
Expenditure
Programme: Activities
Programme: Badges
Administration costs
Campsite: Maintenance/improvements
Bouverie Rd: Maintenance/improvements
Bank charges
Training materials
Membership fees
Equipment depreciation
Sundry payments
Total Expenditure
Net Income/(Expenditure) for the Year		 Notes
2
3
Notes
4
6
7
 2020
£
255
1,435
3,205
10,937
71,348
22,050
290
4
109,524
2020
£
3,158
3,139
60
14,728
7,539
72
-
25,557
1,337
1,501
-
57,091
52,433		 2019
£
4,962
1,269
16,661
15,111
38,405
21,654
-
7
98,069
2019
£
12,030
4,386
587
16,789
4,790
80
489
22,314
4,913
997
-
71,243
26,826

The above accounts and accompanying balance sheet were approved by the Trustees at their meeting on the 30[th] June 2021 and were signed on their behalf by:

Alan Hands

District Chair

East London District Scout Council. Registered Charity Number 1114589

EAST LONDON DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 2020

FIXED ASSETS
Buildings at cost or valuation
Bouverie Road Scout Hall
Fairmead Campsite
EQUIPMENT
Bouverie Road
Fairmead Campsite
Other
CURRENT ASSETS
Badge Stock
Debtors and prepayments
Bank Accounts
Cash
TOTAL ASSETS
LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES
Creditors and Accruals
Assets at 1stJanuary 2020
Net Income/(Expenditure)		 Notes
12
11
8
9
10
5

 2020
£
403,001
414,105
817,106
4,614
-
1
821,721
1,253
3,385
123,753
-
128,391
950,112
150
949,962
898,900
51,062
949,962		 2019
£
403,001
414,105
817,106
5,860
51
41
823,058
1,863
5,130
68,976
294
76,264
899,322
422
898,900
872,074
26,826
898,900

East London District Scout Council. Registered Charity Number 1114589

EAST LONDON DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020

1. ACCOUNTS

The accounts incorporate the funds administered by the District Scout Council and do not include any of the funds administered by the individual groups within the East London District.

2. DONATIONS AND GRANTS
Bloomberg
UKHQ Scouts Start up grants
Miss E A Pemberton-Barnes Will Trust
Covid-19 Grants – Retail Leisure & Hospitality
Other donations
3. MISCELLANEOUS AND NON-RECURRING INCOME
Bouverie Road – EON refund
Bouverie Road – TSB compensation
Bouverie Road - Sale of surplus CO2 Alarm
4. CAMPSITE EXPENDITURE
Electricity
Gas
Business Rates
Miscellaneous – repairs, mower, website
Water
Telephone
Cleaning consumables
Insurance
Fire Extinguishers
Waste removal
Maintenance and improvements
5. DEBTORS AND PREPAYMENTS
Roland Philipps Centre
Subscriptions
Prepayments



2020
£
3,892
5,000
27,456
35,000
-
71,348
222
50
18
290
2,569
108
184
444
41
332
202
1,782
531
569
7,963
14,728
-
1,785
1,600
3,385		 2019
£
-
-
30,969
-
7,436
38,405
-
-
-
-
2,315
18
181
284
381
505
703
1,921
-
-
10,481
16,789
270
2520
2,488
8,300

East London District Scout Council. Registered Charity Number 1114589

EAST LONDON DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL, NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020

6. PREMISES – BOUVERIE ROAD - EXPENDITURE
Cleaning
Gas and Electricity
Rates
Miscellaneous
Water
Insurance
Repairs and Improvements
7. SUNDRY PAYMENTS
Covid Signage and materials
District Scarfs
10thStepney Scarfs
3rdBethnal Green Hall Hire
8EQUIPMENT - BOUVERIE
Value 1 January
Additions in the year
Depreciation
Written down value 31 December
9 EQUIPMENT - FAIRMEAD
Value 1 January
Addition
Depreciation in the year
Written down value 31 December
10 EQUIPMENT
Written down value 1 January
Additions in the year
Depreciation in the year
Written down value 31 December
11 FAIRMEAD CAMPSITE
Balance 1 January and 31 December
12 BOUVERIE ROAD SCOUT HALL
Balance 1 January and 31 December



East London District Scout Council. Registered Charity Number 1114589

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE EAST LONDON DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL

I report on the accounts for the year ended 31st December 2020 which are set out on pages 7 to 10.

Respective responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner

As the charity's trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that the audit requirement of Section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act) does not apply. It is my responsibility to state, on the basis of procedures specified in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners under Section 43(7) (b) of the Act, whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of examiner's report

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the ·accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.

Independent Examiner's statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

  1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that i n any material respect the requirements

  2. to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 41 of the Act and

  3. to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and

  4. to comply with the accounting requirements of the Act have not been met, or

  5. to which, in my opinion , attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached, or

  6. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the accounting rules of the District's constitution have not been met.

W A NOIBI

_______ Signature

Name: Mr Wakeel Abiodun Noibi Qualification: FCCA Address: 1 Blomville Road, Dagenham RM8 3DH Date:

East London District Scout Council. Registered Charity Number 1114589