1[st] BLACKWATER VALLEY B-P SCOUT GROUP
Registered Charity No. 1193176
http://1stblackwatervalleyscouts.co.uk
26[th] November 2024
TRUSTEES REPORT for period 2023 to 2024
The four Trustees have met regularly and at need in addition to participating in bi-monthly Group leader meetings. All Trustees are Scouts with two still holding warrants within the Group, and another having previously held a warrant for Beavers and Cubs in our Group for two decades.
Our efforts to secure grant funding to re-build our Scout Hut take up a great deal of time and resources but have continued to meet with rejection.
We hold a 25-year lease and our building is in community ownership (the members of the Group for the time being – all local families). We have been running for over 30 years and have seen thousands of children pass through our Group benefitting from traditional Scouting and the positive character development that results.
The pre-school that had licensed use of our premises for 12 months left with unpaid bills and liabilities. The court upheld her claim that it was the liability of her insolvent dormant Ltd. Co. and not her personally, despite the company recorded and proven as not trading during the period in question. This was incorrect in our view, but it had become an argument with the system and was dropped.
Our 30 years of providing Traditional Scouting continues to produce “home Grown” new leaders, i.e. young adults who started with us at the age of 5 years in Beavers and have taken up warrants as leaders once they turned 18 years of age.
Group leader training continues to be provided in-house apart from 1[st] Aid, Remote 1[st] Aid, and Child Protection.
Our membership of the World Federation of Independent Scouts (WFIS) continues with the Group as a full member.
Our Group continues membership of the Nantmor Mountain Centre in Snowdonia which provides a unique venue for Scouting activities and Leader Training.
The Group continues to own and operate a minibus and coach whereby activities can be considered without logistical challenges.
The focus of our Scout Group continues to be safely delivering traditional Scouting to young people through an established progress and achievement programme based on the good character, self confidence and community identity aspects of training identified by the founder of the Scout movement, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, and his wife Olave Baden-Powell, founder of the Guide movement.
Report compiled by Richard Llewellyn (GSM & Trustee)
Group Scout Master: Richard Llewellyn, 4 Forest Close, Staunton, Coleford, Gloucestershire. Telephone: 01594 806114 Email: info@1stblackwatervalleyscouts.co.uk
I, Blackwater Valley B-P Scout Group Annual Accounts for the Year Ended I, Aprll 2024 Income Operatingal¢ Amount 1£) Fund alc Unilgrm alc Income Source Subscriptions Activities £1.267.00 £1,634.50 £501.00 £29.00 £58.00 £30.00 Donations Uniform Fund raisiTh8 Transfer from other atcount5 £145.00 £59.50 £61.05 £1,085.16 £223.00 £1,281.80 £1,621.09 £3,106.89 INCOME: £31.00 £59.50 Total Income £4,770.16 £209.55 £8,086.60 1,903.59 £6.183.01 LESSTRANSFERS IN.. TOTAL INCOME: Expenditure Expense Group Vehicles Amount 1£) £198.12 £2,437.78 £208.40 Activity costs Scout Hut £1,128.62 £0.00 Group equipment Supples Unit expenses Transfers to other at¢ounts Total Expenditure £107.97 £18.72 £102.55 £2,293,11 £1,655.59 £5,383.41 £59.00 £189.00 £2,723.90 EXPEND.: £291.55 £8.398.86 £1,903.59 £8.495.27 LESSTRANSFEAS OUT.. TOTAL EXPEND: Balance Sheet a5 of 315t January 2024 Assets Balance this financial year Balance at 1st April 2023 Fln81 Balance Arnount 1£) -£613.? £382.99 -£82.00 £1,022.48 £409.23 £76.34 £118.49 £459.33 £36.49 8ank Account Balan¢e115t April 20241 £409.23 £459.33 £36.49 GROSS BALANCE.. £905.05 Llabllltles Amount l£1 NONE Sl8ned'. 1st BVG continue to malntaln an overau posltlve Ilnanclalsatus. Utllity costs contulnue to be kept withln the Income otthe Group and maintenance of assets restricted to malerlal ¢ost$ only, wlth lèbour provlded by Group leaders and parents. The Group own the Scout Hut and hold a rwenty ilveyear lease lor the site. As an independent Scout Group it has ho abiLIty lor umbreua associatlon leesor contrlbutlon5. Mrs. MlcheLe Llewèllyn1SY BkmTEII VPIIEY Grtsup treasurer B-P SLOUTGFlQkW 16th December 2024