## Group Lead Volunteer Annual Report 2025 Hi everyone and welcome to another AGM and Annual Awards ceremony – my 17[th ] year leading the Group! This will be my last year as GLV, I’m due to retire next year and feel it is time for someone else to take over. I’m not getting any younger and we need someone with more energy than I have at the helm. We’ve come a long way since 2008 when I was appointed Group Scout Leader, and we’ve hit several milestones and achieved so much together as a Group. When I joined the Group as a Cub Leader in 2002, we had one Beaver Colony, one Cub Pack and a Scout Troop. In 2008 we celebrated our 75[th] Anniversary, 2009 we were awarded the Presidents Prize for Best Scout Group in the District. In 2010 we recorded our highest ever membership (to date) with 101 children and we celebrated opening a second Beaver Colony Ismay and welcomed the first girls to the Group in Cubs. We were awarded the District Reg Cook Trophy for Best Beaver Colony and the Blackwood Trophy for the Scout Troop who achieve the most ‘out’ in Scouting. In 2011 with Cub numbers growing, we opened a second Cub Pack known as Reed Pack in recognition of our President Dave Reed. We o�icially became the biggest Scout Group in West Wirral District in 2012. In 2013 we celebrated our 80[th] anniversary, in 2014 we opened a second Scout Troop named Martin Troop after one of the Scout Group’s founding members. In 2014 the Cub Packs jointly won the District Fitzpatrick Cup as Best Cub Packs in the District. In 2015 one of our Scouts Dan attended the 23[rd] World Scout Jamboree in Japan. In 2016 I stepped down as Akela after 14 years and Caro took over. In 2018 we celebrated our 85th anniversary and we opened a 3[rd] Beaver Colony named Royden. Two of our Scouts Mat and Jamie were selected to attend the WSJ in the USA and Canada in 2019. In 2019 our membership stood at 175 young people and around 40 adults, we were once again awarded the District Presidents Prize for Best Scout Group. 2020/21 were challenging years with the Covid-19 Pandemic and our Scout meetings continuing online with Zoom visitors and content and virtual visits all around the world and the UK. We managed to have our first ever International Trip to Disney and Paris and got back just in time before the first lockdown. It was a huge success with an enormous amount of work behind the scenes to pull it all together, but a great trip which everyone who attended enjoyed immensely. In 2022 with 196 children and 32 adults in the Group. In January we opened our first Squirrel Drey Scouting named Hillbark Drey for 4 & 5- year-olds, demand was so great that the second opened in September named Harrock Drey. At the District AGM in May 2023, Hillbark and Harrock were jointly awarded the Squirrel Drey of the Year. 2023 our 90[th] Anniversary, but a very tough year for me and I wasn’t able to attend the AGM for the first time in 22 years. The Group however continued to grow with 233 young people on the Census and 36 Adult Leaders and 18 Young Leaders. We had our second trip to Disney and Paris, another huge success. 2024 another successful year still over 224 youth members 34 adult leaders and 14 Young Leaders. 2025 we still have over 200 young people, 29 adults and 14 Young Leaders, comprising nine Sections who meet each week, 2 Squirrel Dreys, 3 Beaver Colonies, 2 Cub Packs and 2 Scout Troops and our third International Trip to Disney and Paris. I read all of my previous annual reports before I wrote this and found they are a great record of what we’ve done, what we’ve achieved and who helped along the way. A big part of my annual report is thanking the Adult and Young Leaders who run the Group Section meetings each week. I need to thank the teams; we need to thank them all for being special and supporting this Group and assisting me to run the Group. The Leadership Team - Caro, Andy, Liz and Holly. Team Leaders - Andrew, Andy, Caro, Paul, Phil, Jayne, Gregg, Holly. Team Members - Jon, Iain, Jay, Chris, John, Laura G, Laura M, Emma B, Emma K, Jenny, Helen, Nia, Liz, Victoria, Rachel, Raych, Nadine, Elena, Clare, Craig Admin Support – Vicky, Kimmy and Gaynor Trustees – Ivan, Nigel, Helen, Wendy, Nick, Marlou, Mel, Alan, Phil, Andrew Young Leaders - Ben, Ben, Elliot, Ella, Finlay, India, Finley, Sadie, Frankie, Ptolemy, Freya, Erin, Harriet, Jared, Tom, Gabby, Emily, Conrad. In the last month I’ve had 3 adult leaders contact me to say they can’t continue in September for various reasons, family commitments, new work commitments, family health, not enough time…… So, we need more help, our youth membership has been pretty constant at between 200 and 233 children each year, but our adult support has reduced, we have more children but less adult volunteers than ever. Please consider joining us as a leader/volunteer so that we can continue to o�er Scouting each week. Volunteers are a special group of people and that’s because they do what it says on the tin and volunteer. They are busy people, they have families, careers, jobs, hobbies of their own. They face di�icult, challenging times, unexpected illness, just the same as everyone else. However, as a group they are extraordinary, because as well as all the normal stu�, they volunteer, they do this for the young people of our Scout Group and don’t get paid. Their only reward is the outcome, providing top quality Scouting for your children, week in week out. Providing skills for life, building independence, confidence and resilience for your children and making this Group the special, amazing, successful Group that it is. Thank you Sue Flush - Group Lead Volunteer 1st Thursaston Scout Group Year 3110312024 Year 3110312025 Statement of the assets and Ilablllties at the end of the year VTrrestrlcted f unds Unrestritted Funds Cash FurKIs Bank current account ITrea5urer plus actlvitle51 Bènk deposlt accounts The Scotjt Assoclatlon ShortTemi 5eThlce Cash l Float5 18033 12485 Tot•1 cash furKIs 38521 33090 Other M<)netsryassets Tax clalrn IGIft Ald c131rn duel Debts due from the coufityl arealdlstrfjct group Insurance clalms Sub totsl In¥•stmentAs$ets Investment propertv Quoted Investments Other Investments Sub total Non monetary Ks•ts forGfOUPS own use Badge stock shop stock other stock Land 3nd 8ulldlngs Motor vehltles Scoutln8 eqtslpment Ifurnlture other 990 990 351x1 Sub tot*1 Totsl Ass•ts 19049) 229511 223580 L￿bIlItIeS Accounts not yet pald Expenses incurred but not Invoiced 5ub5crlptlon not yet pald Loan deta115 other Itabilldes Totsl Ilaljllltits The atxjve recelpts and payments atcount and statements of assets and Ilabllitles were approved by the Trustees on (The date of the EKecutlve Committee Meetlngthat approved the accountsl And $18ned on behalf by.. Signature Print name Cfr3ir Treasurer 1st Thursaston Scout Group Receipts and Payments Year 3110312024 Year 3110312025 Recelpts Unrestricted Funds Unrestricted Funds Donatlons, Legacles and slmllar Income Members Subscrlptlon5 Less: Membership Svb5criptlons paid to D15trlrt Net membershlp subcription retained Donatlons Legacies Glft Aid Other slmllar Income, A¢tlvltle5 27416 28660 12255 16405 57 11648 15768 106 46141 62015 32378 48840 Subtotal Grants Maintenance Grant Other Grant Icovls 191 Sub totjl Fundr8lsln¥ Gross General Scout Post Other fundralslng actlvltle5 IEasy Fundralslng) 4216 5379 Sub totsi 4216 5379 Inv•stynent Income gank Interest Bulldln8 Soclety Interest The Scout Assoclatlons Short Term Investment Othei Investment Income 87 126 Subtotsl 87 126 Total Gn)s$ Incomè 66318 54345 Total recelpts 66318 54345 1st Thursaston Scout Group Year 3110312024 Year 3110112025 Recelpts and payments Payments UnrestrScted Funds Unrestrirted Funds Charitable Payments Youth programme and actlvltles Adult support and trainin8 Rent Water and sewa8e Electrlclty and gas Insurance Repalrs and Renewables Materia15 and Equipment Admin, PrlntlnÉ and photocopySn8 Contrlbutlon to camp costs Unlform5 and k AGM and Trustee ex￿nSeS Transport Bad8es 38733 42910 365 3854 5373 872 954 382 2867 5650 1130 491 969 579 626 3069 56722 465 2350 58804 Sub totsl Fundrablns Expenses General Other fundra4sln8 actlvltles 2943 972 Sub total 2943 972 TotAI paymonts 59665 59n6 Net of re¢èlpt51 paymonts Cash funds last yèar Cash fvndsth15 ye4r•nd 6653 45913 38521 -5431 38521 33090 CHARITY COMMISSION I FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of 1st Thurslaston Scout Group On accounts for the year ended 31st March 2025 Charlty no lif any) Set out on pages I report lo the trustee5 On my examination cf the accounts ol the above charity I'lhe Trust") for the year ended Responslbilities and As the charity Iruslees of the Trust. you are responsible for the prèparatlon basls of report of the accounls in accordance wilh the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ("the Act"}. I report in respect of my examination of Ihe Trust s accounls carried out under section 145 of the 2011 A¢1 and in carrying out my examination. I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 1451511bl of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention ) in connection wilh the exarninalion which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 01 the Act or the accounts do not accord with Ihe accounting records I have no concern5 and have come across no other matters in conneclion with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order lo enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delele the words in the brackels if they do not apply. Signed: ', 11.¢. i Name: Richard Gleqcj Turner Independent examiner's statement Date.. une Relevant professional quallficatlon{$) or body Ilf any)- A.C.l.B. Address: Thurslaston Hall, Thursta%ton, Wirral. CH61 OHL IER October 2018