20[th] Walsall (Great Barr) Scouts Group Registered Charity: 1130225 Trustees Annual Report 2024-25 **20[th] Walsall (St Margaret’s, Great Barr) Scout Group Trustees’ Annual Report – 1[st] April 2024 – 31[st] March 2025** ## **Registered Charity Number: 1130225** **Registered Address: Great Barr Community Hub** **Vicarage Rise Great Barr Birmingham B43 7AQ** 1 20[th] Walsall (Great Barr) Scouts Group Registered Charity: 1130225 Trustees Annual Report 2024-25 Charity trustees for the period who manage the charity |**Trustee Name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**| |---|---|---| |HelenJohnson|Acting Chair|From October
2024| |Alan McGarrol|Treasurer|From May
2024| |GrahamSmith|GroupLeadVolunteer|| |ClaireDoggett|LeadershipTeam member|| |Stephen Payne|Trustee|From March
2025| ## **SECTION B – STRUCTURE, GOVERANCE AND MANAGEMENT Governing Documents and Processes** The Group is a trust established under the rules and regulations of the Scout Association. The Group's Governing documents are those of The Scout Association. They consist of a Royal Charter, which in turn gives authority to the Bye Laws of the Scouts Association Organisational Policy and Rules. ## **How the Charity is constituted** The Group is a trust established under its rules which are common to all Scouts. ## **Trustees Selection Methods** The Trustees (cited above) are appointed in accordance with the Policy, Organisation and Rules of The Scout Association. The Group is managed by the Group Trustee Board, the members of which are the Charity Trustees’ of the 20[th] Walsall Scout Group which is an educational Charity. As charity trustees they are responsible for complying with legislation applicable to charities. This includes the registration, keeping proper accounts and making returns to the Charity Commission as appropriate. The Trustee Board currently consists of the Chair, Treasurer and elected Trustees and meets every 3 months. 2 20[th] Walsall (Great Barr) Scouts Group Registered Charity: 1130225 Trustees Annual Report 2024-25 Members of the Trustee Board complete Being a Scouts Trustee Learning within 6 months of joining the Board. The Group Trustee Board exists to make sure the charity is well managed, risks are assessed and mitigated, buildings and equipment are in good working order, and everyone follows legal requirements and the organisation’s policies and rules. Their support helps other volunteers run high quality and safe programmes that gives young people skills for life. ## **RISK AND INTERNAL CONTROL** The Group has in place systems of internal control that are designed to provide reasonable assurance against material mismanagement or loss. This includes 2 signatories for all payments and comprehensive insurance policies to ensure that insurable risks are covered. ## **Damage to the building, property and equipment.** Following the opening of the headquarters building, known as Great Barr Community Hub, in September 2010, all the Scout Groups regular meetings were transferred there. The Hub Management team, responsible for the management and sub-letting of the Hub, have overseen the administration of the building, including the sub-letting to other organisations. (The buildings running costs are financed from this sub-letting.) . The Group has sufficient buildings and contents insurance in place to mitigate against permanent loss. ## **Injury to leaders, helpers, supporters and members** The Group through the capitation fees contributes to the Scout Associations national accident insurance policy. Risk Assessments are a mandatory requirement in the preparation of all activities. ## **Reduced income from fund raising** The Group is primarily reliant upon income from subscriptions and rent and endeavours to hold a reserve to ensure the continuity of activities should there be a major reduction in income. The Committee have looked to raise the value of subscriptions and rent to third parties to increase the income to the group on an ongoing basis. ## **Reduction or loss of members** 3 20[th] Walsall (Great Barr) Scouts Group Registered Charity: 1130225 Trustees Annual Report 2024-25 The Group provides activities for all young people aged 4 to 18. The group holds a waiting list for membership of sections. If there was a reduction in membership in a particular section or the group as whole it could not destabilise the group. However it may be necessary to contract, consolidate or close a section. In the worst case scenario the complete closure of the Group. This is extremely unlikely as there is a waiting list for most sections. ## **SECTION C – OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES** ## **Summary of the Objects of the charity set out in its Governing Document** The objectives of the group are as a unit of the Scout Association. The Aim of The Scout Association is to promote the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potentials, as individuals, as responsible citizens and as members of their local national and international communities. The method of achieving the Aim of the Association is by providing an enjoyable and attractive scheme of progressive training, based on the Scout Promise and Law and guided by adult leadership. ## **PUBLIC BENEFIT STATEMENT** The 20[th ] Walsall Scout Group meets the Charity Commission’s public benefit criteria under both the advancement of education and the advancement of citizenship or community development headings. ## **SECTION D – ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE** ## **Summary of the Main Achievements in the Year** The Hub continues to gain strength with an increase in rent having been in effect since January 2025. Increase in parent and adult Participation has been a priority and remains a high priority particularly with engagement via the Family Camp. Fundraising efforts have continued to increase this year. Whilst this is some way below the income generated from the bonfire in previous years it has helped to bridge the gap between income and expenditure of the last few years. This is mainly due to the successful craft fayre and the Santa’s Sleigh which were successful again this financial year. 4 20[th] Walsall (Great Barr) Scouts Group Registered Charity: 1130225 Trustees Annual Report 2024-25 ## **SECTION E - POLICIES** The Groups policy on reserves is to hold sufficient resources to continue the charitable activities of the group should income and fundraising activities fall short. The Group does not have sufficient funds to invest in longer term investments and has therefore adopted a risk averse strategy to the investment of its funds. All funds are held in cash using only mainstream/high street banks i.e. HSBC and Barclays Banks. The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature G S Smith Original sighned Full Name - Graham Smith ` Position – Group Lead Volunteer Date Signed – 30/04/2025 Signature Claire Doggett Original signed Full Name Claire Doggett Position - Group Leadership Team Member/ Trustee Date Signed – 30/04/2025 5 ||**20th Walsall (St Margaret’s Great Barr) Scout Group**|**20th Walsall (St Margaret’s Great Barr) Scout Group**|**20th Walsall (St Margaret’s Great Barr) Scout Group**|**Reg Charity No:**
**1130225**|**Form CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Annual Accounts**||||| ||**For the period**
**from**|1st April 2024|**To**|31st March 2025|| ||||||| ||**Section A: Receipts and**||**Payments**||| |**Receipts**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**8,446**
**2,170**
**1,478**
**13**
**5,938**
**-**
**15,433**
**282**
**-**
**14,482**
**48,242**
**549**
**411**
**801**
**79**
**935**
**130**
**12,259**
**4,444**
**-**
**575**
**1,422**
**2,340**
**5,130**
**3,302**
**6,402**
**9,690**
**573**
**49,042**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**49,042**
**- 801**
**-**
**16,262**
**15,462**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Bank Interest||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Bonfire|||**-**|**-**|**-**| |Donation|||**-**|**-**|**41**| |Events|||**-**|**8,446**|**4,026**| |Insurance Claim|||**-**|**2,170**|| |EDF Refund|||**-**|**1,478**|| |Xmas Tree|||**-**|**13**|| ||||**-**|**-**|| |Cash|||**-**|**5,938**|| |Gift Aid|||**-**|**104**|**3,128**| |MembershipFees|||**-**|**15,433**|**14,920**| |Minibus|||**-**|**282**|**1,066**| |Refund|||**-**|**-**|| |Rent|||**-**|**14,482**|**13,587**| |**_Sub total_**|||**-**|**48,346**|**36,768**| |**Payments**|||||| |ActivityEquipment||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**549**|**70**| |Admin|||**-**|**411**|**589**| |Badges|||**-**|**801**|**516**| |Bank Fees|||**-**|**79**|**708**| |CampingEquipment|||**-**|**935**|**104**| |Donation/Gifts|||**-**|**130**|**28**| |Events|||**-**|**12,259**|**4,083**| |Insurance|||**-**|**4,444**|**4,380**| |Meetings|||**-**|**-**|**758**| |PettyCash|||**-**|**575**|| |Sandwell Council|||**-**|**1,422**|| |Security|||**-**|**2,340**|| |MembershipCosts|||**-**|**5,130**|**6,704**| |Minibus|||**-**|**3,302**|**3,887**| |Hub Cleaning|||**-**|**6,402**|| |Utilities|||**-**|**9,690**|**15,827**| |Venue Maintenance|||**-**|**573**|**7,739**| |**_Sub total_**|||**-**|**49,042**|**45,393**| ||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**|| |**_Sub total_**|||**-**|**-**|**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||| |||**-**|**-**|**49,042**|**45,393**| ||||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**- 697**|**- 8,625**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**16,262**|**43,489**| ||||**-**|**15,462**|**34,864**| 01/17/2026 CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Section B Statement of assets**|**and liabilities at the end of the period**|||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
Group Account HSBC
**7,952**
**-**
Group Account Barclays
**7,510**
**-**
**-**
**15,462**
**-**
petty
OK
OK
**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
Land & Buildings
Group
**-**
Group
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Details**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Signature
Print Name
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**_Total cash funds_**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
Motor Vehicles (15% Reducing
~~Balance)~~
**$**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||**7,952**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**| |||**7,510**||**-**| |||||**-**| |||**15,462**||**-**| |||OK
**to nearest £**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**||OK
**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||Group||**750,000**| |||Group||**9,104**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||Date of approval| |||||| |||||| 01/17/2026 CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 ||**20th Walsall (St Margaret’s Great Barr) Scout Group**|**20th Walsall (St Margaret’s Great Barr) Scout Group**|**20th Walsall (St Margaret’s Great Barr) Scout Group**|**Reg Charity No:**
**1130225**|**Form CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Annual Accounts**||||| ||**For the period**
**from**|1st April 2024|**To**|31st March 2025|| ||||||| ||**Section A: Receipts and**||**Payments**||| |**Receipts**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**8,446**
**2,170**
**1,478**
**13**
**5,938**
**-**
**15,433**
**282**
**-**
**14,482**
**48,242**
**549**
**411**
**801**
**79**
**935**
**130**
**12,259**
**4,444**
**-**
**575**
**1,422**
**2,340**
**5,130**
**3,302**
**6,402**
**9,690**
**573**
**49,042**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**49,042**
**- 801**
**-**
**16,262**
**15,462**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Bank Interest||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Bonfire|||**-**|**-**|**-**| |Donation|||**-**|**-**|**41**| |Events|||**-**|**8,446**|**4,026**| |Insurance Claim|||**-**|**2,170**|| |EDF Refund|||**-**|**1,478**|| |Xmas Tree|||**-**|**13**|| ||||**-**|**-**|| |Cash|||**-**|**5,938**|| |Gift Aid|||**-**|**-**|**3,128**| |MembershipFees|||**-**|**15,433**|**14,920**| |Minibus|||**-**|**282**|**1,066**| |Refund|||**-**|**-**|| |Rent|||**-**|**14,482**|**13,587**| |**_Sub total_**|||**-**|**48,242**|**36,768**| |**Payments**|||||| |ActivityEquipment||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**549**|**70**| |Admin|||**-**|**411**|**589**| |Badges|||**-**|**801**|**516**| |Bank Fees|||**-**|**79**|**708**| |CampingEquipment|||**-**|**935**|**104**| |Donation/Gifts|||**-**|**130**|**28**| |Events|||**-**|**12,259**|**4,083**| |Insurance|||**-**|**4,444**|**4,380**| |Meetings|||**-**|**-**|**758**| |PettyCash|||**-**|**575**|| |Sandwell Council|||**-**|**1,422**|| |Security|||**-**|**2,340**|| |MembershipCosts|||**-**|**5,130**|**6,704**| |Minibus|||**-**|**3,302**|**3,887**| |Hub Cleaning|||**-**|**6,402**|| |Utilities|||**-**|**9,690**|**15,827**| |Venue Maintenance|||**-**|**573**|**7,739**| |**_Sub total_**|||**-**|**49,042**|**45,393**| ||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**|| |**_Sub total_**|||**-**|**-**|**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||| |||**-**|**-**|**49,042**|**45,393**| ||||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**- 801**|**- 8,625**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**16,262**|**43,489**| ||||**-**|**15,462**|**34,864**| 01/17/2026 CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 3 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Section B Statement of assets**|**and liabilities at the end of the period**|||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
Group Account HSBC
**7,952**
**-**
Group Account Barclays
**7,510**
**-**
**-**
**15,462**
**-**
petty
OK
OK
**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
Land & Buildings
Group
**-**
Group
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Details**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Signature
Print Name
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**_Total cash funds_**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
Motor Vehicles (15% Reducing
~~Balance)~~
**$**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||**7,952**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**| |||**7,510**||**-**| |||||**-**| |||**15,462**||**-**| |||OK
**to nearest £**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**||OK
**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||Group||**750,000**| |||Group||**9,104**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||Date of approval| |||||| |||||| 01/17/2026 CCXX R4 accounts (SS) 4 20th Walsall st.mar aret's Great Barr Scout Grou I declare I have examined the Group Financial Accounts for the period 1st April 2024 up to 31st March 2025. This examination was in line with the requirements of the Scout Organisation UK as required by the Procedures manual. Signed David Baum Position Business Development Manager Date 3rd November 2025