## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 04 2023 **To** 31 03 2024 ## Section A Reference and administration details Sells Seventh Scout Group **Charity name** Sells Seventh Scout Group **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1198320 **Charity's principal address** Scout Hut Powell Close Luton **Postcode LU3 2FA** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Alan Wood|GroupScout Leader||| ||Barbara Wood|Assistant Group
Scout Leader||| ||TonyPye|Treasurer||| ||Brian Bates|Chairman||| ||Sue Guess|Secretary||| ||Mathew Allen|Trustee||| ||Christine Wood|Trustee||| ||Ben Summerfield|Trustee||| ||Kevin McAree|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL; AS INDIVIDUALS, AS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS AND AS MEMBERS OF THEIR LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 01 JAN 1919 How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) AGM Annual General Meeting Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **TAR** March **2012** 2 |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG
PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL,
INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL
POTENTIAL; AS INDIVIDUALS, AS RESPONSIBLE
CITIZENS AND AS MEMBERS OF THEIR LOCAL,
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES| |---|---| ||Scout Group with sections for ages from 4 to 14, giving
youth life changing experiences and life skills| ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** **TAR** March **2012** 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## Section D Achievements and erformance p **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** The charity has been able to replace old toilet facility with up to date modern facilities and including provision for a new disabled facility. It continues to promote Scouting in the local community to all ethnicity and cultural, religious backgrounds in youth members from the age of 4 years to 14 years. **TAR** March **2012** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** To hold sufficient reserves for any emergency requirements to the building and land that the Scout Group operates from. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** None ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Alan Wood **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Group Scout Leader **etc)** **Date** 10 – 09 - 2024 **TAR** March **2012** 6 ## **Sells Seventh Scout Group Receipts and Payments Account** Year start date Year end date ||**For the year**
**from**|**For the year**
**from**|**2023**|**2023**|**To**|**To**|**2024**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||| |**Receipts and payments**||||||||| |**Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
**6,523**
**- 2,667**
**3,856**
**11,280**
**-**
**1,358**
**-**
**16,494**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**701**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**701**
**166**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**166**
**17,361**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2023/24**||||**Total funds**
**£**
**6,523**
**- 2,667**
**3,856**
**11,280**
**-**
**1,358**
**-**
**16,494**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**701**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**701**
**166**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**166**
**17,361**
**-**
**17,361**|**2022/23**
**Total funds**
**£**| |**Donations, legacies and similar**
**income**||||||||| |Membership subscriptions|**6,523**|||||||**4,380**| |Less: Membership subscriptions paid on
(National/County/Area/District)enter figures with a minus sign|**- 2,667**|||||||**- 2,527**| |Net membership subscriptions retained|**3,856**|||||||**1,853**| |Donations|**11,280**|||||||**11,776**| |Legacies|**-**|||||||**-**| |Gift Aid|**1,358**|||||||**-**| |Other similar income|**-**|||||||**-**| |**Sub total**|**16,494**|||||||**13,629**| |**Grants**||||||||| |Maintenenace grant|**-**|||||||**-**| |Other grants|**-**|||||||**-**| |**Sub total**|**-**|||||||**-**| |**Fundraising (gross)**||||||||| |Detail 1|**701**|||||||**500**| |Detail 2|**-**|||||||**-**| |Detail 3|**-**|||||||**-**| |Other fundraising activities|**-**|||||||**-**| |**Sub total**|**701**|||||||**500**| |**Investment income**||||||||| |Bank interest|**166**|||||||**6**| |Building Society interest|**-**|||||||**-**| |The Scout Association Short Term
Investment Service|**-**|||||||**-**| |Property Rent income|**-**|||||||**-**| |Other investment income|**-**|||||||**-**| |**Sub total**|**166**|||||||**6**| |**_Total Gross Income_ **
**Asset and investment sales, etc.**
**_Total receipts_**||||||||| |||||||||**14,135**| |||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**17,361**||**-**||**-**|||| ||**17,361**||**-**||**-**||**17,361**|**14,135**| 1 LT700003 ## **Sells Seventh Scout Group Receipts and Payments Account** ||||Year start date|Year start date|Year start date|Year start date|Year end date
**2024**|Year end date
**2024**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the year**
**from**||**2023**||**To**||**2024**||| ||||||||||| |**Receipts and payments**|||||||||| |**Payments**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**373**
**4,275**
**1,041**
**19,228**
**512**
**-**
**-**
**160**
**79**
**106**
**798**
**-**
**26,572**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,572**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2023/24**||||**Total funds**
**£**||**2022/23**
**Total funds**
**£**| |**Charitable Payments**|||||||||| |Youth programme and activities|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |Adult support and training|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |Rent|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |Water and Sewerage|**373**||||||**373**||**167**| |Electricity and Gas|**4,275**||||||**4,275**||**2,680**| |Insurance|**1,041**||||||**1,041**||**954**| |Repairs and Renewals|**19,228**||||||**19,228**||**4,098**| |Materials and equipment|**512**||||||**512**||**176**| |Printing and photocopying|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |Contribution to camp costs|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |Uniforms|**160**||||||**160**||**56**| |AGM and trustee expenses|**79**||||||**79**||**26**| |Other costs detail Rates|**106**||||||**106**||**148**| |Other costs Scouts Activerty Support|**798**||||||**798**||**502**| |Other costs detail 3|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |**Sub total**|**26,572**||||||**26,572**||**8,807**| |**Fundraising expenses**|||||||||| |Detail 1|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |Detail 2|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |Detail 3|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |Other fundraising costs|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |**Sub total**|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |**_Total Gross Expenditure_ **
**Asset and investment**
**purchases, etc.**
**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**Transfers between funds**
**Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**8,807**| ||||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**26,572**
**- 9,210**
**-**
**-**
**- 9,210**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||||| ||||||||||**8,807**| ||||||||||| ||**- 9,210**||**-**||**-**||**- 9,210**||**5,328**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 9,210**||**-**||**-**||**- 9,210**||**5,328**| 2 LT700003 ## **Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the year** ## **2023/24** **2022/23** ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
**22,465**
**13**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,478**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**494,000**
**-**
**12,420**
**4,007**
**510,427**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**£**
**22,465**
**13**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,478**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**494,000**
**-**
**12,420**
**4,007**
**510,427**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**£**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Cash funds**|||||| |Bank current account|**22,465**|**-**|**-**|**22,465**|**14,710**| |Bank deposit account|**13**|**-**|**-**|**13**|**16,978**| |Building society account|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |The Scout Association Short Term
Investment Service|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Cash/Floats|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**Total cash funds**|**22,478**|**-**|**-**|**22,478**|**31,688**| |**Other monetary assets**|||||| |Tax claim|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Debts due from the
County/Area/District/Group|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Insurance claim|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**Sub total**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**Investment assets**|||||| |Investment property - detail|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Quoted investments|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Other investments - detail|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**Sub total**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**Non monetary assets for**
**charity's own use**|||||| |Badge stock|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Shop stock|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Other stock|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Land and buildings|**494,000**|**-**|**-**|**494,000**|**387,643**| |Motor vehicles|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Scouting equipment, furniture etc|**12,420**|**-**|**-**|**12,420**|**12,420**| |Other|**4,007**|**-**|**-**|**4,007**|**3,500**| |**Sub total**|**510,427**|**-**|**-**|**510,427**|**403,563**| |**Liabilities**|||||| |Accounts not yet paid|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Expenses incurred but not invoiced|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Subscriptions not yet paid|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Loan - detail|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Other liabilities|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**Sub total**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ## **Contingent liabilities and future obligations** **The above receipts and payments account and statement of assets and liabilities were approved by the Trustees on Xth X 200X (the date of the Executive Committee meeting that approved the accounts) and signed on their behalf by** |Signature|Print Name| |---|---| ||A B Pye-Treasurer| ||A Wood - GSL| 3 LT700003 Scrutineerfs Report to the Trustees of the SELLS SEVENTH SCOUT GROUP I DISTRICT ￿UT COUNCIL I report on the aCC￿nts ofthe wp for year ended 310 Marc* 20* 1 Respective responsibilities of Trustws ￿ S¢rulY￿r As the Group'snistricf5 In￿teeS you are resportsible for Ihe preparation of the accounts., you consider that neither the aurfrt nor independent examination rewirements of the Charibes Act 2011 apply. 11 is my responsibility wthout ¢arying an autht or independent exaThMnalion to scnknise the aCco￿ts and to report to you. Basis of Scrulineerfs Stat•m• In accordance ¥￿th the thrections jven in the Group'slDistiicVs constrlutron. I have $¢rutiThsed the records and Ihe accounts set iyjt on pages 1 to 3 In my opinion the acc(JJnts are in a￿dance *rylh Ihe recLYds produced to me and corrwy the ¢onstibJtion. Name.. -.mr Johnnie Sommerfidd... Address.. ..7 Gateshll Gafdens........................................................................................ ........ ..Lulon.............................................................................................. Date.. LT700005