## **1[st] Hartford Scout Group Charity Number 520202** **Registered Address** : 4 St James Way, Hartford, Northwich, CW8 1GR ## **Registered Trustees** : John Bebbington – Treasurer Michelle Bebbington – Chair Sian Lewis Gareth Lewis Graham Wallace Su Smith ## **Highlights for the year** Membership continues to grow across all sections with all leaders and assistants coming up with creative and innovative activity plans. Major expense agreed to provide high level outside security for the scout hall, including fencing, gateway, CCTV and alarm system. Bedding plant sale remains popular and a very good source for raising funds. ## **Financials** Opening bank balance on 1st April 2022 was £51,647 Incomings Total raised £37,575 Outgoings Total £47,439 Closing bank balance on 31st March 2023 £41,783 ## **Accounts verification** The accounts for 1[st] Hartford Scout Group have been verified by Paul Lounds of Lounds & Co. This included an analysis of bank transactions supplied reconciled to the bank balance for the period 01/04/22 to 31/03/23. All payments out of the bank account were checked against supporting documentation. He confirmed that the money spent through the bank account, is fully supported by invoices & / or authorisation documents. The administration improvements he recommended be put in place regarding administration procedures and policies from the previous year’s audit have now been reviewed and implemented. ## **Special notes** We did not receive any donations from unknown sources or have any unusual activity. We did not receive any non-UK income. The trustees did not receive any payments other than reimbursement of expenses. The trustees for this period are listed above and no changes were made during the year. ## **Declaration** Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature: Full name: John Bebbington Position: Treasurer Date: 5[th] March 2024 **1st Hartford Scout Group 520202 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01/04/2022 31/03/2023 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
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_AR)_|**37,575**||||**55,382**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
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**47,439**|**29,057**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**47,439**||||**29,057**| ||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
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**_Cash funds this year end_**||||**47,439**|| ||||**-**||**29,057**| ||||||| ||**- 9,864**||
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**-**|**41,783**|**51,647**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 07/03/2024 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
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approval| |||John Bebbington|5th March 2024| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 07/03/2024 2 l Hartford Scout Group Financial Accounts for the Year to 31 March 2023 Independent verifitation Testing w35 carried out on a sample of 50 transactions from the Income and Expenditure Accounts. The transactions were either agreed back to the source documents or from the source document back to the Income and Expenditure Accounts. Testing was also carried out to identify whether each month'5 Summary had been signed off by the Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer & that the opening and closing bank balances per the Accounts agreed back to the attual Bank Account Statements. Findings I can confirm that the testing identified no differen￿5 between the source documents and the Accounts & that each of the monthly summaries had been signed off by the appropriate parties. As always with these type of businesses, it is impossible to confirm with 100% assurance that all of the income generated at events was paid into the business, bank account as there are no sales invoices generated for each and every transaction. Recommendations No recommendations made. Slgn off I can confirm that the information contained in the monthly summaries for the year to 31 March 2023 are in line with the underlying transactions and that they fairly represent the data that is available to review. Signature= Date: 24- Name.. Paul Lounds. FCA