## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/01/2023 Period start date To 31/12/2023 Period end date Charity name: 14[TH] SOUTHGATE SCOUT GROUP** **Charity registration number: 267202** ## **Objectives and Activities** SORP reference Summary of the purposes of Para 1.17 The Purpose of Scouting exists to actively engage the charity as set out in its and support young people in their personal governing document development, empowering them to make a positive contribution to society. The Values of Scouting: As Scouts we are guided by these values: Integrity - We act with integrity; we are honest, trustworthy and loyal. Respect - We have self-respect and respect for others. Care - We support others and take care of the world in which we live. Belief - We explore our faiths, beliefs and at udes. Co-operation - We make a positive difference; we co-operate with others and make friends. The Scout Method Scouting takes place when young people, in partnership with adults, work together based on the values of Scouting and: Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document 4 LT700001 (3rd December 2018) Additional details of the objectives and activities (optional information but encouraged as best practice) statements, where relevant, about: • policy on grantmaking; • contribution made by volunteers; • policy on investments. Public benefit statement Section D Achievements and performance Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year Section E Financial Review Reserves Policy Care - We support others and take care of the world in which we live. Belief - We explore our faiths, beliefs and at udes. Co-operation - We make a positive difference; we co-operate with others and make friends. The Scout Method Scouting takes place when young people, in partnership with adults, work together based on the values of Scouting and: - enjoy what they are doing and have fun - take part in activities indoors and outdoors - learn by doing - share in spiritual reflection - take responsibility and make choices - undertake new and challenging activities - make and live by their Promise. |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Our young people are ofered weekly term-tme
sessions for each secton, consistng of actvites
such as skills building exercises, games, and local
trips. Camps from overnight sleepovers to 2
week summer camps in the UK or abroad. Fund-
raising actvites for specifc events. Weekend
actvity days and events. District events. Helping
in the community| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Group meets the Charity Commission's
public beneft criteria under both the
advancement of educaton and the
advancement of citzenship or community
development headings.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|The entre Scout Group is run by volunteers and
is non-proft making. Training is mandatory and
specifc to individual roles. Our Group objectves
include making quality Scoutng available to
every young person in the catchment area,
regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion,
income or disability.| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|The Group contnued to provide a safe place for
young people to learn new skills and make
positve contributons to the community through
various actvites, camps and events held
throughout the year.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The Group’s fnancial positon was extremely
healthy with three tmes the minimum reserves.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Group's policy on reserves is to hold
sufcient resources to contnue the charitable
actvites of the group should income and
fundraising actvites fall short. The Group
Executve Commitee considers that the group
should hold a minimum sum equivalent to 12
months runningcosts,circa £17k.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|The Group held reserves of £51,843 against this
atyear end.| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|N/A| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|N/A| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|The Group's governing documents are those of
the The Scout Associaton. They consist of a
Royal Charter, which in turn gives authority to
the Bye Laws of the Associaton and The Policy,
Organisaton and Rules of The Scout Associaton.| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|The Group is a trust established under its rules
which are common to all Scouts.| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|The Trustees are appointed in accordance with
the Policy, Organisaton and Rules of The Scout
Associaton.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|14thSouthgate Scout Group| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|267202| |Charity’s principal address|Scout Hut
Green Road
London
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Veronika Radway|Chair|To 24/04/24|| ||Mark Thompson|Chair|From 24/04/24|| ||Ilan Shefer|Treasurer||| ||Martin Kjollesdal-
Creasy|Cubs Leader||| ||StaceyStonehouse|Beavers Leader||| ||Shaeren Otitoloju|Parent volunteer|From 25/04/23|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Ilan Shefer **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc)** **Date** 10/10/2024 **Charity Name No (if any) 14th Southgate Scout Group 267202 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a** |**For**|**the period**
**from**|Period start date
1/1/2023|**To**|Period end date
12/31/2023| |---|---|---|---|---| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||| |Camps, activities and events|**8,805**||**-**||**-**||**8,805**||**6,037**|| |Donations|**1,813**||**-**||**-**||**1,813**||**3,749**|| |Hall and space hire|**9,394**||**-**||**-**||**9,394**||**10,829**|| |Interest|**387**||**-**||**-**||**387**||**17**|| |Sale of food, drink, clothingetc.|**1,438**||**-**||**-**||**1,438**||**216**|| |Subscriptions|**9,936**||**-**||**-**||**9,936**||**8,100**|| |Thirdpartydonations|**-**||**230**||**-**||**230**|||| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**31,773**
||**230**||**-**||**32,003**||**28,948**|| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Camps, activities and events
**8,805**
Donations
**1,813**
Hall and space hire
**9,394**
Interest
**387**
Sale of food, drink, clothingetc.
**1,438**
Subscriptions
**9,936**
Thirdpartydonations
**-**
**31,773**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**230**
**230**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**8,805**
**1,813**
**9,394**
**387**
**1,438**
**9,936**
**230**
**32,003**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Camps, activities and events|**8,805**|**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**6,037**| |Donations|**1,813**|**-**|||**3,749**| |Hall and space hire|**9,394**|**-**|||**10,829**| |Interest|**387**|**-**|||**17**| |Sale of food, drink, clothingetc.|**1,438**|**-**|||**216**| |Subscriptions|**9,936**|**-**|||**8,100**| |Thirdpartydonations|**-**|**230**|||| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**31,773**
|**230**|||**28,948**| |**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 31,773**
**A3 Payments**
Capitation
**3,096**
Camps, activities and events
**10,185**
Badges, scoutwear, materials etc
**1,744**
Section expenses
**2,625**
Online transaction charges
**395**
Subscriptions
**147**
Rent
**1,000**
Utilities
**2,149**
Repairs and maintenance
**1,236**
Insurance
**2,816**
General and miscellaneous expenses
Cleaning
**2,488**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 27,881**
**Tents**
**1,063**
Adjustment 2021
**_Sub total_ 1,063**
**_Total payments_ 28,944**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 2,829**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**47,658**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 50,487**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**230**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**230**
**-**
**-**
**230**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,003**
**3,096**
**10,185**
**1,744**
**2,625**
**395**
**147**
**1,000**
**2,149**
**1,236**
**2,816**
**-**
**2,488**
**-**
**-**
**27,881**
**1,063**
**-**
**1,063**
**28,944**
**3,059**
**-**
**47,658**
**50,717**|| ||||**-**
**-**
**-**||| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**||**28,948**| ||||||| ||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**2,762**| ||||||**6,177**| ||||||**2,006**| ||||||**450**| ||||||**297**| ||||||**164**| ||||||**1,000**| ||||||**4,374**| ||||||**281**| ||||||**2,210**| ||||||**911**| ||||||**1,001**| ||||||| ||||||**-**| ||||||**21,633**| ||||||| ||||**-**
**-**
**-**||**1,166**| ||||||**634**| ||||||**1,800**| ||||||| ||||**-**||**23,433**| ||||||| |||**230**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**5,515**| |||**-**|||**-**| |||**-**|||**42,143**| |||**230**|||**47,658**| ## **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**|**Details**
Lloyds Accounts (4)
NatWest Account
Cash in hand
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Fixed assets
**Details**
Creditors
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**48,398**
**541**
**1,548**
**50,487**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
General
General
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**230**
**-**
**-**
**230**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**230**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**1,356**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||Creditors|General|**230**|**Jan 2024**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |Signature|Print Name
Ilan Shefer|Date of
approval| |---|---|---| ||Ilan Shefer|10/10/2024| |||| **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name 14[TH] SOUTHGATE SCOUT GROUP **members of On accounts for the year** 31 December 2023 **Charity no** 267202 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (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 31/12/2023. - **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 examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) 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._ **Signed: Date:** 11/10/2024 **Name:** Steven Engelbert **Relevant professional** ICAS **qualification(s) or body (if any):** **Address:** 112 Lakenheath London N14 4RX ## **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). **October 2018** 1 **IER** **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **October 2018** 2 **IER**