2022-03-31-accounts - 4th Boston (Kirton) Scout Group

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Annual Report for 4[th] Boston (Kirton) Scout Group – 2022

Charity Number 51239

Charity Number 51239
Trustees, including those added in 2020	Carl Sharp – Group Chairman Claire Sharp – Group Treasurer Maria Elderfield – Group Scout Leader
Charities Principal Address	Rose Cottage, 49 Horseshoe Lane, Kirton, Boston, Lincolnshire. PE20 1LJ

Report created by	Carl Sharp – Chairman
Accounts audited by	Candour Accounts – Spalding Business Centre

Governance / Structure and Management

4[th] Boston (Kirton) Scout Group is managed through a committee which comprises of Chair, Treasurer, Secretary and Group Scout Leader as official officers with leader representation from the sections (Beaver, Cub & Scouts). Parents are welcome to attend any committee meeting if they wish to do so.

The committee is underpinned by a term of reference / constitution and further governed by the Scout Association rules, under the auspices of the Boston district and country organisations.

A treasurer’s report is given at each committee meeting, and a full statement of accounts together with annual income and expenditure is circulated at the Annual General Meeting where approval is soughtyn and accepted weee.

During 2021-22 Lesley Lanfranco was removed as a trustee, as no longer involved with the group and a new parent committee member was voted on.

Charity Objectives

To support the Scouting activities of young people. The group is a member of the Scout Association, offering boys and girls from 6-16 years of age unique and/or life affirming experiences, the chance to help others, develop personal skills and provide a positive effect in their community.

Activity undertaken during 2021 which delivers charity objectives.

Beaver Scouts Report – AGM 2021 to AGM2022

We currently have 27 mmm Beavers, with some on a waiting list.

Over the last year we have done a litter pick around Kirton, where members of the public seemed very appreciative of our efforts.

We have also been looking at the app what 3 words and following a map, working toward our navigator’s badge. The beavers really enjoyed this; well group 2 did as it was nice weather! Group 1 not so much but was nice to be back.

We had a district event at Woodhall where we had 23 Beavers attending, as a district there are 92 in total. This allowed the beavers to mark off the outdoors activities that we have not been able to do while in lockdown, which a few will need to complete their Bronze awards. I am grateful to Keith & Roy for helping us on this day as without them we wouldn’t be able to take so many.

Beaver Scouts have been doing their Science & Space activities badges - Beavers made big planets and painted them although one Beaver had more paint down the front of her jumper than on the planet itself. Beavers visited Krazee Klimb which for some was something very new and fun and also visited The Stump.

We had a visit from the Boston Food Bank and the Beavers, together with other sections of the group , are donating items for those in need – this covers part of their Community Impact Badge requirements which are supposed to be done once a year.

We also have 10+ Beavers attending our Easter Fun Day at Fishtoft HQ doing Easter activities. Future activities involve a District Beavers on the Beach and an outing – venue yet to be decided.

We took part in parliament week, where we watched a video explaining how voting and parliament works, We discussed different camp ideas and voted on which one we should do next, it was a draw so we will have to do them both, A chocolate Camp and a flight Camp. We have started the Emergency aid badge which Polly lead the meeting; we are due to finish this in a couple of weeks’ time.

We had 28 beavers take part in the remembrance parade, which was a fabulous turn out, it was nice to be back doing this event.

The Beavers have enjoyed visiting the fire station where they got to sit in the fire engine and have a look around.

Tracey McGrath (Deer) & Mavis Margetts (Baloo) – Beaver leaders.

Cub Scouts Report – AGM 2021 to AGM 2022

We have 37 Cubs.

We did badge work consisting of one new sport, badminton, in door bowling, Kubb game, boules, also a foreign wood game. The group did a pack forum listing what they would like to do during cub meetings.

Working towards their world badge, they did a litter pick around Kirton Village.

We have taken part in the District Record Breaking day and quiz, with card, plastic cup and sugar cube stacking also timing the cubs as to how long they took to eat 3 cream crackers, plus many more activities.

On the 24th April, although a bit breezy, we had 18 cubs taking part in the District St. Georges Day parade, first parade since Covid lockdown. A big thankyou to our colour party who did us proud.

We’ve made grass heads and practiced tent pitching, did junk modelling with the theme of Transport. This is to go towards the District Village Show this coming weekend, (14th/15th May)

Further badge work consisting of pitching a tent and camp safety.

We finished off the chef’s badge, by speaking about the different food groups and the nutritional value. We played the game 4 corners with each corner being a food item, the cubs had to answer questions and go to the correct corner.

Cubs had a fund-raising night in aid of cancer research, which consisted of a non-uniform night and the cubs brought in loose change to play games with and donate afterwards. This also went towards the Global Issues badge.

We’ve also started the Emergency Aid 2 badge. We had a visitor (Martin Blackman) who spoke about, 999 calls, recovery and how to reassure a patient. We also played a game where the leader had different types of illness/injury and the cubs had to work out what was wrong by asking questions and observing the situation.

We continued with the Global Issues badge. The cubs talked about homelessness, energy waste and foreign items in your home.

We had a meeting with the cubs using Gravitraxs, where the cubs built their own runways and tracks using gravity to roll balls down them.

During October half term we took 26 cubs to PGL, where the cubs took part in a range of different activities: Climbing, Canoeing, Raft building, Abseiling, Rifle shooting and Archery, Buggy building, Puzzle solving, Blind trail, plus 2 popular film nights.

We started the My Faith/World Faith Badge. Learning about different religions and their places of Worships. The cubs also wrote their own prayers.

We had a good turnout for the Remembrance Parade in Kirton, with 29 cubs and 1 Young Leader attending, with the Colour Party and Wreath Layers doing an excellent job.

During the year we’ve also done the obligatory Mothers day, Fathers Day, Easter and Christmas gifts, all going towards badge work.

Roy Chapman (Akela) – Assistant Scout Leader

Scouts Report – AGM 2021 to AGM 2022

There is approximately 25 on the books.

We have been taking part in activities to include father’s day models, which we used sanding techniques and coloured and painted plaques.

There was a ‘mass’ investment carried out in the car park of the Kirton Youth Centre so parents could come and watch.

At present we have 20 children on the register with one coming up from Cubs and a new girl brought by one of our girl scouts, and 3 leaders consisting of Paul, Jackie and Zoe.

We had 17 Scouts march on the St Georges Day Parade, a very good turnout on a glorious spring day.

District camp was held at Sudbrooke Scout Camp site. A very nice site with showers and hot water – big thumbs up! 12 Scouts went, 3 of whom were girls. Unfortunately, we relinquished the camp gate trophy to 7th Boston Scout Group. We felt as a group, another group should have half a chance to get their name engraved on it - next to our seven wins.

We’ve had a florist come to the hall and dress a pot plant with ribbon, paper and a card done by all the scouts.

We also had a pancake night with a few games chuked in. The scouts kept themselves busy by eating as much as they could cook and hone their pancake tossing skills. I do believe they were trying to get him to stick on the ceiling… or perhaps I'm being paranoid?!

The Scouts had 5days at PGL which completed some of their badges and had great fun doing it. It was a great experience for many who had never abseiled or climbed tall towers before.

We attended the annual firework display at Springfields again with the theme on Remembrance Day, another fabulous show and we all enjoyed it.

We started the Skills badge and have nearly completed this with tye dying t shirts and pillowcases.

We have had Remembrance Sunday with 12 Scouts attending, as part of their badge work, we got them to iron their neckers and show proof by photo on our web page, we even got some shirts done as well.

To complete their skills badge they made advent calendars from cloth so plenty of sewing was done.

Paul Lanfranco & Jackie Chapman – Scout leader & Assistant Scout Leader

Group Leader Report – AGM 2021 to AGM

We have 80 members on the books according OSM and 7 on the waiting list between cubs and beavers this is 4 less than in my last report can I ask that all leaders keep the numbers up to date please.

I am pleased to see that the scouts have had their first camp in 2 years, I was lucky enough to join them on the Sunday and it looked like that all had fun. Most of them completed the very, very long hike so congratulations to all those scouts that completed it.

The Jubilee badges I wanted to buy for all of the members at 4th are currently out of stock, I will get an email when they are back in stock.

The new shop looks fantastic and is now open and takings are doing well. We have had some very good comments from the people of Kirton and are just so pleased we are open again. The shops 30-year celebration didn’t go as well as we expected, we didn’t have as many staff as we would have liked but it was nice to see the old treasure Terry and his wife. We did have a lot of leaders there, so thank you all for taking the time to celibate this momentous occasion.

All sections turned out for remembrance Sunday at the memorial in Kirton and it was good to see every out paying their respects and on Parade.

It's not only the young people that have been earning badges; Jackie, Zoe, Mavis, Keith and Myself have all received long service awards and/or wood beads to show the completion of our training.

Maria Elderfield – Group Scout Leader

3	Income and spending	Income £57'605.00 Expenditure£62'757.00
4	For the period of this return, were there any serious incidents that the charity failed to report to the commission?	No serious incidents reported.
5	Does your charity raise funds from the public?	Charity funds raised from the public are in the form of – 1. Shop in Kirton, where members of the public donate clothing, books, toys and various goods for resale. The shop is staffed by volunteers and is open Monday to Saturday afternoon. 2. Subscriptions 3. Annual jumble sale 4. donations
6	Does your charity work with a professional fundraiser?	No
7	Does your charity have written agreements with all of its professional fundraisers?	N/A
8	Does your charity work with a commercial participator?	No


9	Does your charity have written	N/A
	agreements with all of its
	commercial participators?
10	Is grant making the main way	No – however we do operate a hardship fund
	your charity carries out its	which will fully cover camps or trips for beavers,
	purposes?	cubs and scouts where necessary.
		Camps and trips are also heavily subsidised so
		that all members canparticipate.
11	During the financial period for	No
	this return, did your charity
	receive income from contracts
	(other than grant agreements)
	from central government or a
	local authority?
12	How many contracts (other	N/A
	than grant agreements) did
	your charity have from central
	government or a local
	authority?
13	What was the total value of	N/A
	the contracts held from
	central government or a local
	authority?
14	During the financial period for	No
	this return, did your charity
	receive any grant funding from
	central government or a local
	authority?
15	How many grants did your	N/A
	charity receive from central
	government or a local
	authority?
16	What was the total value of	N/A
	the grants held from central
	government or a local
	authority?
17	During the financial period for	No
	this annual return, did the
	charity receive income from
	outside of the UK?
18	Select countries the charity	N/A
	received income from, or


	select 'Unknown/don't know if
	applicable'.
19	What is the value of income by	N/A
	country? For each country
	specify the source and amount
	of income from the options:
	a) Overseas Governments or
	quasi government bodies;
	(including EU)
	b) Overseas Charities, NGO's
	or NPO's
	c) Individual donors resident
	overseas
	d) Overseas institutional
	donors/institutions (for
	example private company
	donations)
	e) Unknown/don't know
20	During the financial period for	No
	this annual return, did your
	charity operate outside
	England and Wales?
21	Select Countries the charity	N/A
	operated in during the
	financial period covered by
	this annual return
22	Record the total expenditure	N/A
	by Country
23	When spending money	N/A
	outside England and Wales,
	did your charity transfer
	money other than using the
	regulated banking system?
24	What methods to transfer	N/A
	money did the charity use and
	what was the value?
	A) Cash courier
	b) Other charities or
	NGO's/NPO'S
	c) Money Service Business
	(MSB)
	d) Informal Money Transfer
	Systems
	e) Online payment methods


	(e.g. Paypal)
	f) Other
25	Does the charity have	N/A
	monitoring controls in place to
	monitor overseas
	expenditure?
26	Are the trustees satisfied that	Yes
	the charity’s risk management
	policy and procedures
	adequately address the risks
	to the charity arising from its
	activities and/or where it
	operates?
27	Does the charity have any	No
	trading subsidiaries?
28	How many trustees are also	N/A
	Directors of the trading
	subsidiaries?
29	During the financial period for	N/A
	this annual return, did any of
	the trustees receive
	remuneration or benefits
	other than expenses incurred?
30	For what services were any of	N/A
	the trustees paid?
	a) paid for being a trustee
	b) paid for providing
	professional advice or services
	to the charity
	c) any other benefit from the
	charity (for example
	accommodation, car, holiday).
	Also include any payments and
	benefits given to trustees who
	are paid members of staff
31	During the period covered by	No
	this annual return, did any of
	the trustees resign and take up
	employment with the charity?
32	Did any of your charity's staff	No
	receive total employee
	benefits of £60,000 or more?


33	Enter the number of staff for	N/A
	each of the following salary
	bands:
	£60,000 - £150,000
	(increments of £10,000)
	£150,001 - £500,000
	(increments of £50,000)
	Over £500,000
34	For your highest paid member	N/A
	of staff only, what was the
	total value of their employee
	benefits?
35	How many UK volunteers,	21 x Shop Volunteers
	excluding trustees, did your	15 x Leaders / Young leaders & 2 occasional
	charity have during the	helpers.
	financial period?
36	During the financial period for	Yes.
	this annual return, did your
	charity review its financial
	controls?
37	Has the charity obtained a	Yes
	standard, enhanced or
	enhanced with barred lists
	DBS check on all trustees,
	employees and volunteers
	who are in roles that are
	eligible for these checks?

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts ••• Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of 41h Boston (Kirton) Sco(rt Group On accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 Charity no (If any) 512391 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above chartty (Ihe Trust.) for the year ended li r)3 Responslbllltles and As Ihe charty trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparatson basls of report of the accounts in accordance wtth the requirements of the Chariknes Act 2011 fthe Acv). I report in resp8Ct of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in tryIng out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by th8 Charty Commission uncler section 145(5}Ib) ol the ACÈ. I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below'l in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordance with sectton 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examiner's statement 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 PToper understanding of the accounts to be reach8O. let8 th rds in th ck8ts rf they do notapply. Slgned: Date: Name: John Chappelle R•Cevant professlonal quallflcalion{s) or body (If any): ICAEW Address: Candour Accounts , Spalding Business Centre. Church Street, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 2PB IER October 2018

ionB Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (se8 CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts= directions and guidance for examiners). GNe here brlef detalls of any items that the examiner wlshes to dlsGlose. October 2018

4th Boston (Klrton) Scout Group 31 st March 2022 2021 2022 Incomo Shop takings Donations Outings Subs Camps Grant Unrform Sales Miscellaneous 11,963 297 20 112 874 35,590 750 1,547 6,139 10,299 1,000 1,186 1,088 49 NS&I Interest Lloyds Int8re5t 474 12.041 57,605 Expendlture Equlpment Training Vehicle expenses Capitalion Camps Outings Shop expenses Leaders, insurance L8aders' expenses Contents insurance Meeting Supplies Donations Hardship subsidy Accountancy Meeting Hall Leaders Expenses UnKorm$ for resale Hut Misc Depreciation 2,576 569 120 4,291 7,700 15.197 2,582 16,7H 1.465 81 8,398 42 198 313 3,704 100 225 300 1,966 252 4,539 480 1,763 io 1,704 5,271 261 18,861 62,757 Net Profit tor year 6,821 5,152

4th Boston (Kirton) Scout Group 31st March 2022 Oponlng Balance Uoyds NS&I Gash in hano 31,546 66,311 51 97.909 plus receipts 57,605 155,514 less payments 62,757 92.757 Closlng Balance Tangible A%sets Ford Transf( Minibus AU67 XCK 15,811 Lloyds Uoyds Savtngs Cash 25,894 51,001 51 92,757