Greater London North Scout County Trustees. Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2024 Trustees TheTnJstees who have served in this capacity during the lastyear andto the date of this report are as follows. Andrew Donn (County Lead Volunteer) John NeLson (Chairl Thomas Graham David Bowman I to 16.04.2024 and again to 6.05.251 ELiie Way Iyouth Commissioner to 16.04.241 Brian Hosier ltreasurer) Ben Hardcastle (to 02.07.241 Chris Stevenson The principal address of the charity for correspondence purposes is County Office Scout Park Gordon Road London Nll 2PB Structure. governance and management The County's governing documents are those of The Scout Association. They consist of a RoyaL Charter. which in turn gives aLrthority to the Bye Laws of the Association and The Policy, Organisation and Rules of the ScoutAssociation. The County is a trust established under rules which are common to aLI Scouts. It is also a Registered Charity in tts own right number 272028. The Trustees are appointed in accordance with the Policy, Organisation and Rules of The Scout Association. The County is managed by The Trustee Board. the members of which are the 'Charity Trustees. of the County which is an educationaL chartty. 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 Board consists of the Chairman and Treasurer together wtth the County Lead Volunteer and up to 6 other members. to make a trustee board of between five and nine peopLe, agreed at the AGM. These members are either appointed at the AGM or by the Couty Scout Council or co-opted by the Trustee Board. The number of co-opted members WILI not exceed the actual number of appointed members. excLuding the Chair and Treasurer.
The Board exists to support the County Lead VoLunteer in meeting the responsibilities of the appointment and is responsibLe for.. The maintenance of County propety. The development of the County., The training of Leaders and administrators.. The raising of funds and the administration of County finance., The insurance of persons. propety and equipment County public occasions: Assisting in the recruitment of leaders and other aduLt support Appointing any sub committees that may be required: The Board has a Finance sub-committee which meets as required. The Trustee Board itself usually meets qLsarteriy. Risk and internal Control The County has in place systems of internal controls that are designed to provide reasonable assurance against material mismanagement or Loss. These include two signatories for aLI payments and comprehensive insurance policies to ensure that insurabLe risks are covered. Principal risks faong the County are as foLIows= Exposure to financial loss from events approval process ReputationaLdamage from adverse press coverage- mitigated bythe use of the Sc04Jt Assoaation Public Relations officer. Reduced income from a fall in membership in our component Districts which providethe major partof our income- mitigated bythe support and training of volunteer leaders to enable a challenging. vigorous and appeaLing programme for young people. mitigated by a robust Events Objectives and activities The objectives of the County 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. 9)ciaL 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. In the County of Greater London North our objectives are ojrrendy as foLIows'. To make quality scoub.ng available to every young person in the catchment area of the County. regardless of gender. race, ethnicity, religion or disability.
To ensure that every Scout Group offers the opportunty for young people aged 4 to 25 to progress through the Scout sections in a clearty identifiable way, either within their Group, or through formal arrangements with other Scout Groups and Distrirt and County Led provisions. To continually 'quality assure. the qualrty of Scouting in every ScoLrt Group. To continuously recruit and retsin adult Leaders and heLpers. To maintain a quality programme of adulttraining and development To buiLd strong teams of adults who wilL detiver the County's objectives. The County supports the workdone in Groups and Districts in delivering the programme by: Delivering the nationaL modular aduLt training scheme. Supporting and promoting parbcipation in national and international events. Providing leadership and guidance both for District Managers and those who manage specific sections within districts. Providing County-wide events and competibons. e.g. handicrafts. camping. water artivities, hill waLknng and dimbing etc Liaising with other Scout Counties to share resources and good pracknce. Achievements and Perfomiance 2024 proved to be another very busy year at Greater London North Scout County. with many meetings, presentations. gatherings and local and internkn.onal expeditions and camps taking place in the County amidst the backdrop of the impLementation of the new membership system acrossthe Scout Movement In January 2024. we were delighted to be able to pass on our congratulations to Martin Russell. Representative Deputy Lieutenant for the London Borough of Barnet and GLN'S CountyVice-Presiden( on being awarded an MBE in the 2024 New Years Honours Listfor services to the community in the London Borough of Barnet Marttrn is a great supporter of Scouting and attends many Scouting presentstions. ceremonies and events in our County, and advocates widely for the value that Scouting can bring to the lives of so many young people. In recognibon ofthis, we were also deghted in December 2024 to present Marbn with an Award for Merit with our thanks and our appreciation for everything that he does for Scouting. On Sunday 14th April 2024. the County hosted a hugely successful Queen'slKing's Scout Award ceLebration lunch at The Parcel Yard restaurant in Kings Cross. attended by 8 of Greater London North's recent top achievers who were able to share with each other their Scouting experiences which culminated in them receiving their awards. We were honoured to have Eknzabeth Henderson, Chief Commissioner of England, attend the lunch and personally congratuLate them all on their inspiring achievements.
A week later on Sunday 21st April 2024, 10 Queen'siKing s Scouts from Greater London North gathered at Windsor to attend the prestigious 'Day of Celebration and Achievement.. Also attending was GLN'S County Leader VoLunteer, Andrew Donn, who was invited to Windsor as he had received his Bar to the Silver Acorn. On Friday 26th April 2024, we were saddened to hear and to have to share the very sad news about the untimely passing of Andrew WellbeLoved. a wonderful and highly intelligent man and a true Scouter. who held many Scouting positions over many years, primarily roles within Greater London North induding that of County Commissioner. County Chair and County President Andiew was also a nominated County representative on the TSA CounciL A service of Thanksgiving to celebrate Andrew's Life. works and achievements took pLace in June 2024 and was attended by many Scouting voLunteers. He continues to be greatly missed by everybodywho knew him. In JULY 2024. we were humbled to share a story about a remarkable 93 year old Welsh gentleman, Brynley Evans. who in 1944 received a Bronze Cross Gallantry Award for saving a life after seeing a young boy struggling in the water - the award was presented to him by Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. BrynLey. who is now residing in a care home within our County, unfortunately lost the medal and we were asked by the care home whether we would be able to source a replament Andrew Donn, County Lead Volunteer, was delighted to be ableto surprise Brynley at his care home and to presentto him a replacement medaL in front of the other residents and stsff whilst hearing his stories and looking at some of his scoub.ng memorabilia. A few months later Andrew returned. taking Rhian Moore, Chief VoLunteer of WaLes along too. In July 2024, Katie Davis. stepped down from her role as District Lead Volunteer for Enf ield District. a posib.on that she had held for 5 years. We were. however. delighted that Katie agreed to instead take on the role of Assistant County Commissioner International to 5UPPOrt and lead international scouting within the County. A search committee was set up to recruit for a replacement for Katie during which time Andrew Donn took over as acbng Districi Lead VoLunteer for Enfield. In March 2025. we were deLighted to welcome Matt Lightfoot as Erifield's new District Lead Volunteer who joins Greater London North with a huge amount of Scouting experience and a weLI established Scouting background. We wish him the best of luck in his new role. At the AGM held at Frith Grange in Barnet in JULY 2024, John Nelson was formaLLy appointed as County Chair and Brian Hosier agreed to stay on as County Treasurer for a further period of l year whilst we undertook a new recruitrnent campaign for his replacement Unfortunately. we have still not kRen able to appoint a replacement for Brian and as such we WILI be working with Brian over the coming weeks and months to disperse his work across our CountyTrustee Board sothat he can finaLly step down atthis year's AGM after serving as our County Treasurer for so many years. The County is also
undertaking an Open SeLection Process in order to appoint new Trustees to our County Trustee Board. In September 2024. we. together with Scouts HQ. were delighted to share the news with our membership that TV presenter and Scolrts ambassador Dwayne Fields had been appointed as the Scout Movement's new Chief ScouL replacing Bear Grylls who had stepped down after serving 3 five year terms. Dwayne is an incredible adventurer who aims to use his posib.on to encourage more young people tr) explore nature. support local communib.es and to be the bestthat they can be. In November 2024. our long stsnding membership sygtem. Corllpass. was finally turned off and a 3-week transition period took effect to alLow for the changeover to the new system. A GLN Go-live support teaTn was set up to provide support and to answer any questions during the transitlon period. The launch of the new system was unfortunately met wtth some chalLenges and a huge amountof work is currently ongoing to resolve the technical glitches. During 2024. 6 knng's Scout Awards were achieved across the County with 3 more having been achieved during justthefirstfew months of 2025. CongratuLations and weLL done to aLI of our King'5 Scout achievers. In 2024. we presented 122 AduLt Awards which included 4 Silver Wolfs IAnn Moore, lan Frais, Michael Moore and Richard Hartl. 4 Bars to the Silver Acorn (Andew Myers-Nobbs, Margaret Spenceley, Mark Dowsett and Mark Wilson) and 6 SiLver Acorns (David Jenner, lan Green. Judith Harris. StanLey DowsetL Susan Moorhouse and Veronica Casey). These awards are hugely important in order to ensure that our adult volunteers continue to be suitably recognised for their exceptional service. We were deLighted to once again be able to hoLd the Chiltern 20 and Southern 50 events with the Chiltern 20 taking place irF Ortober 2024 and the Southern 50 tsking place in February 2025. Both events were hugely attended and were a resounding sijccess. Our special thanks go to Rogional Commissioner. Richard WilLiams and new Chief Scout Dwayne Fields, for supporbng the event and for presenting the certificates and trophies to the competing teams. Ourthanks also gotothe ChiLtern 20 and Southern 50 Committees for all of their hard work and effort in running the events and ensuring that both events remain I0 ofthe most long running and successfuL events in UK scouting. Injanuary 2025, GLN were proudto send a delegation of 8 peopLetothe Scouts Summit25 conference which took place at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on 25-26 January 2025. The purpose of the Summit was to aLlow volunteers from across the UK to come together to reflect on what has been achieved through Scouts SkiLts4Life strategy and to prepare for the future and shape the Movement's next strategy which begins in 2026. Over the 2-day weekend. there was a mix of engaging and thought provoking
sessions and workshops. plus presentations from different societies and chariti&. including The Good ChiLdhood Report 2024 presented by the Children s society on the welLbeing of children and young people. On Saturday 15th March. 3 young people and one adult leader were excited to join hundreds of other enthusiastic ScoLts and Explorers in Oxford for the day. atthe UK Youih Forum. The day was a series of really positive workshops and sessions which was held in order to get young peoples. views on the future of Scouting so that the next strategy WILL truly be shaped by our young peopLe. We were delighted thatso many international camps and expeditions took place in 2024. including 3 Explorer Units in Southgate embarking on an exceptional Easter expedition to Morocco where they trekked along the Sahara desert in sweltering conditions. Other experiences included camps to Austria and to the Essex Jamboree. as well a Winter Hillwalking weekend to Snowdonia in January 2025 attended by 23 Leaders from GLN who were able to gain watking experience in the upLand environment and undertake the training required to gain hillwaiknng permits. A Summer HilLwalking weekend is scheduled to take place in Derbyshire in June 2025. During 2024. 117 Young People and 14 Leaders were recognised through the Jack Petchey Achievement Awards scheme. administered by our County Adminigtrator. Jackie Hartog. which resulted in almost £50.000 in grants being awarded to Groups and Units across the County. In February 2025, District Lead Volunteers, members of our County Team and our Trustee Board. parents. volunteers and dignitaries from across the County gathered at the Arts Depot in North FinchLey to attend the Jack Petchey Achievement Awards ceremony. hosted bythejack Petchey Foundab"on, to celebrate the achievements of the award winners in what was a very special and upLifting event Entertainment included a presentation by Mike Thurston on the MonopoLy Run event pLus a very special tribute to Sir Jack Petchey who sadLy passed away in June 2024. FolLowing some unfortunate breaks in Servi since the the start of our'underrepresented Communities Fund, 2-year development projert in February 2025. we were pleased to welcorne Ayesha Arshad as Greater London North's LocaL Growth Officer. working closely with Juliana Ajibade. Local Growth Operations Manager. London and East Ayesha comes with a great deal of experience and enthusiasm having previously worked as a Local Growth Officerfor London and East of England. and we look forward to her working with our existing volunteers to support local Scouting and to grow new groups and missing sections. specifically in underrepresented. ethnic and faith communib.es across the County where there is currently very Itttte or no provision. As we prepareforanother busy year ahead. ourthanks and our gratitude as aLways go out to our dedicated team of leaders and voLunteers for everything that they do tri support the
work of the County in order to deliver safe and excibng programmes to all of our young people. Public Benefft In pLanning our activities for the year we kept in mind at our trustee meetings the Charity Commission guidance on public beneftt Membership ofthe ScoutAssociation. and therefo of the County, is open to all. no matter what background. faith. gender. or personal circumstances. Subscriptj'ons payable to local groups are minimal and no young person would be prevented from joining if they were unable to pay this subscription. Grants are available at Group. District and County level to assist aLI young peopLe to fully participate in all activtties. PLans for the Future Our focus for 2025. together wtth the Scout Associab"on, WILI be to continue to make improvementstothe new membership system and to resolve anyoutstanding issues. We will aLso continue in our efforts to recrutt more adtJltvoLunteers to support our Groups and our Units acrossthe County andto also undertake addttsonal recrultment initiats.ves in order to fill the many vacant positions within our County Leaderships teams. The County will continue to support many events. incLuding the Chiltern 20 and the Southern 50 hikes and to begin fuLI preparabons for the 26th WorLd Scout Jamboree due to take place in Poland in the summer of 2027. including the appointrnent of a Un Leadership Team and a selecknon process for young people wishing to attend the Jamboree. In June 2025. we will be holding our County AGM at Scout Park in North London, kindly hosted by Mandy Franks, District Lead Volunteer for North London Scout District where we will implement any new guidance in respect of running the AGM to align with changes to Scouts POR IPobcy. Organisation and Rulesl. having aLready implemented the initial changes at our iasttwo AGM'S. The County wilL continue to develop our intemal communications using various sociaL media pLatforms and will work to update our County website. Through our various communication channeLs. we will also seek to continue in our efforts to recruit new volunteers into a number of vacant County roles. most pressingly the role of County Treasurer. We will continue to promote the Jack Petchey Achievement Awards scheme and to reach outto Groups and Units from across the County who have never appLied before. We will also continue to provide support to any young person wishing to gain a Top Scoutng Award.
Most importantty, we wilL continue to work with Scouts HQ and our Regional Commissioner. Richard Williams. on a major drNe tri ensure fuLI mandatory training compliance across the County. specifically safety and safeguarding. which has become even more important foLLowing publication of the inquest into the Great Orme tragedy and the Scout Movement's commitment to implement all of the inquirys safety recommendations. FinaLly. we WILI continue to work with our development team to promote growth and to deliveron our mission to bring Scouting to as manycommunities as possible andto ensure that the makeup of our County is as diverse and as inclusive as those whom we represent Financial actbvities and results Our General Fund has made a surpLus of £6.804 during the year due to an increase in subscriptions. A transfer of £22.100 has been madeto thejamboree Designated Fund to supportfLrtureJamborees. The General Fund now stsnds at£93,622 and with a minimum of liabilities this Fund is considered satisfactory and sufficient for foreseeable needs. The totsl of Designated Funds have increased by £16,479 as we continue to build the fund to SUPF)Ort the 2027 World Scout Jamboree. The totsL to carry forward is £69.969. Restrirted Funds now only incLude Jack Petchey and alL but one leader award of £l.000 reiVed have been paid to groupslunits. The only other balance was brought forward being a donation for the HilLwaLkÈng activty giving a totaLto carry forward of £1.250. During the year we have continued to receive achievement award grants from the Jack Petchey Foundation, in total £47.092, and other than one grant of £l.000 noted above these have all been paid out to groups and leaders in the County to assist with further activities. We are most grateful to the Foundation for this continuing support and generosity to young peopLe and leaders associated with our groups. Investment Powers. Policy and Perforniance It is a requireffEnt of POR {Policy Organisation and Rules) that funds not immediateLy required by the County are transferred into a suitable investment vehicle permitted by POR. The County's policy is to invest in bank deposit accounts including the Charities OfficiaL Investment Fund and CAF.
Reserves Reserves can be considered as the balance on our General Fund. It has been agreed that this figure should not faLL below £50.000. The fund stsnds in excess of this amount but has fallen during the year and the budgetfor 2025 indicates this will faLi again in the current year. Voluntary Help Many voluntsers give of their lime and tsLents to support Scouling in Greater London North at Group. Distritt and County VeL We are greatty indebted to these voLunteers for their commitment and support Approved by the T ees and signed on their behalf by.. John NeLson Chairman 06 May 2025
GREATER LONDON NORTH SCOUT COUNTY Receipts and Payments Account Forthe yoar ISTJANUARY 2024 31ST DECEMBER 2024 Receipts and payments 2024 2023 hJvKTr5 T¢)tslthJnds Totsl fvnds Dwatton iegae5 and mIlar income Membership Subscriptions Less Membership Su((riptiOns paid on ationaUCountylAre•Oi5trict) ente 2312n 209.288 184163 170,187 Membership Subscription GalLeon Netmembership 5ubscriptiDns retsId Donètstsn5 49.110 io 39.101 250 otherMIlr income 216 Subtotsi 49335 Gr$ 39.351 Jack Petchty 47.092 51.718 gjbtotsi 47m2' 51.718 Athrbes l#rossl lamboreÈ iuoi 7&J45 EUrojalsT $thern 501Chiltem 20 21.489 20.012 DofEWelcorne packs Other artivitie% 2.940 4216 3.125 1.520 Subtot41 IOW3 Investment incwne IntEleSt L196 3.054 COIF interest 787 Sub totsl 156 3341 Total Gross Income 47.093 141S38 Trtal receipts Page 1 LT700003 sC¢ts
GREATER LONDON NORTH SCOUT COUNTY Receipts and Payments Account 2023 2024 2024 Receipts and payments TotsEfunds Totalfunds funds nds PaymÈnts Charkablè PaymerrtS Youth programme ènd activ5 1&170 I16 Training inc Equipment 471 1,440 Adult 5UPPQrt 150 150 2,297 SaLiry EostS 12.733 13.d02 Jambttee 117.007 GraThtsJotk P¢trhty 16.092 51318 DevEloptnprtexpEn5e5 22271 3,591 Inyjrar 258 258 Team Expenses 1.548 Awarils event 1.023 Web ho5neW srtp L060 1.028 DtsfE welEome packs 2997 5A60 SuMmitcoTrferce AGM and rcK)m hirè cty0 Lo 5LXJ SundriÉs 39 256 Bank charges Sub total 17*11 Sub totsl Totsl Gross Expendire 5>751 17MII 117.655 Z20.559 Prior year adjustmentto lts off 752 X7ml 117.6S5 220.559 Net of tsceipt4(payments) Tyanthrs betweEn lunds 21283 21.756 21100 22.100 Ca5hfunds lastyear end Cash fvnds this yearend Iwi8 31.39) 29) 161314 93.622 1.250 140.SSB Pa9e Jl) Scouts 2 LT7W
Statement of assets and lialjilities olt the end of the year 31st DECEMBER 2024 31-Detr23 Tolalfimds Fun& Totsi knds Ca5hfvnd$ 8ankcuTrentOccwnt. sp BankdÈpD5i(acL¥MJnt- yerval COlFAccs U50 37,512 6B,742 -i6&84i Other monew assets ch¢qtses hand 140,558 GftAidJamborEe 4,100 Non monetsry assetsfor thwws 4.489 Own US• DOE stock ofbwJk3 Drf debtor5 845 402 bto•l 630 Liabilitse5 Amourts owing Depy5it5 received forfvbJreÉwt JbtDtsI Z16 216 1.000 DEsifthATED FU4DS oll19 balanc TAngfr b?ian Souther SOht20 2L489 16.170 20,136 IQ573 1641 2110D 49.833 31390 17.811 22.100 69.969 lackPetrh 47m2 Iwo 250 250 250 47.092 46.092 1250 2025 aftd sgned on thwbewby Sg abjre Prnt Name John Nelson- Cha¢r Brian Hosi¥- Treasurer Pa9e 1£ 3 Lfioooo3 Scouts
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES GREATER LONDON NORTH SCOLrr COUNTY I report to the Chaiity trustees on my examinatron of the acownts of the chafity for the year ended 31 Dernter 2024 which are set out ¢)n pages 1 to 11. Responslbllftles and basis of rgport As Ihe ChariV$ trustees you are reswnsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordan with the fequirements of the Charities Act 2011 {Ihe ACY). I report in respect of my examination of the chanty's accounts carried oui under section 145 of the Act and in caryng out my examination I have followed all the appIle Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)Ibl of the ACL Indepondent ExamlneVs Ststement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in C£*nnectton wlih the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect {1} accounting record$ We not kept In respect of ts charity as rUired by sectron 130 of the Art. (2) the accounts do not ac4)yd with those rrds. Signed ..Heather Rayner FCA............................ 31 Freston Gardens Bamet Herts EN4 9LX 31 May 2025