2024-02-29-accounts

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Scout Promise

On My Honour, I promise that I will do my best To do my duty to God and to the King, To help other people And to keep the Scout Law

73[rd] Leicester (Groby) Scout Group

Annual Report 2023/24

The Group Lead Volunteer’s review
Financial Report Year Ending 29th February 2024

The Group Lead Volunteer’s review of Scouts in the 73rd Leicester Scout Group.

This year as a group we have held our usual 2 group camps with the older sections, Explorer’s and Scouts, also having a shorter than usual local summer camp at John’s Lee wood.

Cubs and Scouts had teams taking part in the Rambling Fox County Hike.

Cubs also took part in the county black country museum visit and beaver attended the county Beaveree.

We have started back up our Network section, this is the oldest section in Scouts 18-25 years.

We are very fortunate to have a very active group within Groby (Beavers - 23, Cubs - 28, Scouts - 21, Explorers - 19 and Network - 8) offering traditional scout meetings and activities.

We would like to thank the Exec on the work they have done this year. Particularly in finally getting a renewed lease with the parish council for the land our building is on. This has taken over 8 years of hard work to get this. With work from current and previous Exec Members, in particular; Steve Harold, Paul Wren, Dennis Sleath, Paul McMorran and Paul Chick.

We now have a 60 year lease for the land and with this we hope to be able secure grants for future work on the building. For this we need people to come forward to help with grant applications and Building work quotes so we can re do the toilet area.

This year we ran a fundraising family funday to celebrate the Groups 73rd Birthday. This received excellent feedback from the local community, and we are running this again this year as a scout gala and hope to make it a regular event going forward. Andy Stone, our cub Scout leader, has taken the lead in organising this and we would like to thank him for all the work he has done to make this happen.

As a group we have a very small group of leaders and exec members. Any help that people could offer is always very much appreciated. On section nights, camps, grant applications, building work quotes, exec committee or helping at the Gala on the 15th June.

If you are able to help in any way however small, please come and see us.

YIS Peter & Bethan Dodge Scouters in charge

Financial Report - Year Ending 29[th] February 2024

We began the year with £38K and finished the year with almost £46K, though £6k of this balance is allocated for future planned camps and activities.

The majority of our annual income is from regular subs, which were very slightly down on previous years. Grant and donation income was the same as previously. We received grant money from the local Coop, which has been spent on Equipment, a grant from the Thomas Herbert Trust Fund towards roof repairs and a generous donation from a past member.

We received £5,400 from the Governments Gift Aide programme against the past 3 years eligible income. On-line fund-raising and the sale of unwanted items, plus donations for the use of the HQ and equipment brought in a miscellaneous income of over £300. Higher interest rates brought in a little more interest than recent years.

Our first Scout Summer Gala raised over £1,500 with other fund raising activities raising a similar total.

Camps & section activities broke-even. The accounts include advance payments of £5k for the 2025 trip to Switzerland and a further £1,000 for this years Spring and Summer camp

The cost of running and maintaining the HQ is still our largest expense with utility costs being our largest regular cost. This years utility expenditure is offset by a large refund, with a net expenditure of £2,700, twice our previous years bills. We have continued our program of HQ repairs and refurbishment with additional work on the electrics and replacing the flat roof, with a total investment of £17,000. A payment of £5,000 was paid by the Thomas Herbert Trust Fund direct to the roofing company, which didn’t go through our account, so our the grant funding received and the HQ repair costs do not reflect this £5,000.

The Group is in a stable financial position, but needs to continue to carefully control the balance between income and expenditure. We are making progress with the refurbishment of the HQ, but will need significant grant funding to complete the final phase.

Finally, thank you to our young members, parents, adult helpers, leaders and volunteers for your continued support.

Rebecca Chick

Treasurer

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