SCOUTING IRELAND GROUP COUNCIL (CHARITY TRUSTEES) ANNUAL REPORT CHARITY COMMISSION FOR NORTHERN IRELAND
This form should be completed and submitted to CCNI as part of your annual return. Please read the note at the end before completing. Should you need further help contact you support officer or Scout foundation Northern Ireland.
Please read the notes at the end when filling in this form. When complete the form should be signed and scanned then uploaded up on to the CCNI website when completing your annual report.
14[th] Fermanagh scout group 1.Charity Name as listed on the Charity Register _________ Scouting Ireland August 2020 2. Financial year the report is for _____ 3. CCNI Charity Registration Number NIC__106237_______ 4. The address from which the Charity Operates St Ninnidhs hall (usually your Scout hall) Main Street Derrylin Co Fermanaggh Current Trustees 5. The names of all our Trustees at the date of this Martin Murphy report plus any who stepped down as a trustee Deborah Smith during the year Neil Burns Deborah Murphy Trustees who stepped down 6. A summary description of the purposes of the charity The aim of Scouting Ireland is to encourage the physical, intellectual, character, emotional, social and spiritual development of young people so that they may achieve their full potential and as responsible citizens, to improve society.
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The Charity’s purposes are: The advancement of education The advancement of citizenship or community development 7. The name of any person, or body of persons, permitted by the trusts of the charity to appoint one or more new charity trustees and a description of the method used to make such appointments* _If there is any individual or organisation with the_ N/A _power to appoint charity trustees, such as another charity or a government department, provide their details, the relevant powers, and methods of appointment._ 8. Include details of any funds held by the charity as a custodian trustee This is mandatory for charities preparing accruals accounts. N/A*
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9. Charity’s Main Activities and Achievements during the year.
We started our scouting year with a hive of activity with several camps and sleepovers with many of our youth members towards many badges. We had Fourteen scouts and five scouters who had planned to go to the European jamboree in Poland whoever due to covid 19 this was postponed until the summer of 2021. At the time of writing this has how been cancelled by the Scout association of Poland, this was going to be an amazing opportunity for our youth members to experience. We also had applied to TBUS for funding to run a cross community Scouting project with the NI Scout rom Ballinamallard which we were successful in getting again due to Covid 19 restrictions we had to decline the offer, but we have applied for the grant next year. This was an excellent opportunity for members of two scout associations of different religions and traditions to come together and make lifelong friendships. This is an area that we as a group are keen to explore more options and opportunities to do more cross-community projects as we believe it is the way forward to bring our community together. Also due to government restrictions caused by the covid 19 pandemic all Scouting activities ceased for the year in early March 2020 with the likely hood of not returning until the summer of 2021 or even September .unfortunately this has had a major impact on both the youth members and adult volunteers we have tried scouting from home during this lockdown by setting a series of challenges and tasks for the youth members to complete some have been successful however there is nothing like the face to face scouting and we hope to get our group scouting as soon as it is possibly safe to do so and within the whatever the current guidelines will be.
We will continue to recruit both youth members and adult volunteers to grow and highlight our Scouting activities to the local and surrounding areas and to make our youth members better citizens for the future.
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10. How is the Group doing financially?
This year has been a very challenging year for the groups finances due to the loss of income from weekly subs and fund-raising activities, we have however managed to stay in credit. WE have applied for numerous grants to help us recover and be in a good financial position when we are able to return to scouting. We as a group are looking and will have applied for gift aid to help with our finances.
11. How has the Group ensured members have not come to harm?
All volunteers receive training in Safeguarding, Programme (youth work) skills and adventure skills. There is oversight of all activity by the Group Leader and the Group Council. Parents are regularly communicated with. All activities are carefully planned and the appropriate equipment used.
12. How has your Group ensured that any private benefit to your volunteers has been incidental to the public benefit of your work?
Volunteers gain additional transferrable skills but this is incidental to the work that they do and are the skills that they require to undertake that work.
13. A statement that the Trustees have had regard to the CCNIs guidance on Public Benefit.
We the Trustees of 14[th] Fermanagh scout groupScouting Ireland can confirm that in setting our objectives and planning for the year that we have given careful consideration to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland’s guidance on public benefit to ensure that the activities have helped to achieve the charity’s purposes and provide a benefit to the beneficiaries.
14. This report was approved by the Trustees (Group Council) on
Date:_03/03 /21_________
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15. Signature of Trustees. (This should be signed by 2 Trustees approved by the Group Council)
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Trustee 1: ______ Date:____
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Trustee 2: ______ Date:____
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NOTES
1. Enter the name of your Charity here as it is listed on the Charity Commission NI register. E.g. 29[th] Derry, Garvagh, Scouting Ireland
2. This would normally be the Scout Year i.e. 1[st] September to 31[st] August
3. Enter your Charity Commission NI Registration Number here. If you have forgotten it you can find it out online at http://www.charitycommissionni.org.uk/charity-search/ or by contacting Scout Foundation NI.
4. Enter the address that you gave CCNI for your Group. This should be the address of where you meet.
5. List the names of Trustees (Group Council Members) that held the position of trustee at the date this report was approved by your Group Council. Also list separately any Trustees that stepped down during the year.
6. This section is pre-filled in for you using an answer previously agreed with CCNI.
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. In this section list the main activities carried out by your Group (Charity) in the last year. Items could include a summary of: The number/type of camps, hikes and outings; environmental projects; cross community work/projects; joint work/projects with other organisations, list efforts to recruit new members, adult and young people, etc. This work is carried out by how many volunteers in your Group.
List the achievements of the Group e.g. the number and type of badges awarded e.g. Special Interest or Adventure skills; the number of Chief Scout Awards; the number of An Gaisce or Duke of Edinburgh Awards; the number of Explorer Belts; any adult awards awarded during the year; have your or people in your Group won any awards as a result of the work the Group undertakes. Have you refurbished your Scout Hall or built a new one?
How have these activities helped young people? You could mention engagement, participation, team work and leadership skills, planning skills, a place to go, a sense of achievement and confidence, a sense of challenge, etc.?
Finally how do you ensure that you are open to all young people?
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10. Tell CCNI how the Group is doing financially including all income and expenditure for the reporting year. This should be the same amounts as in your accounts. Tell them about any fundraising that you undertook or grants received. Also list any debts that the Group has and how the Trustees plan to get rid of them.
11. This section is pre-filled in for you using an answer previously agreed with CCNI.
12. This section is pre-filled in for you using an answer previously agreed with CCNI.
13. Enter the name of your Charity here as it is listed on the Charity Commission NI register and the date the report was approved by the Group Council.
14. Enter the date that this report was approved by the Group Council.
15. Two trustees must sign the form.
16. You can use another format for the report e.g. your own Groups annual report, but all questions listed here MUST be answered including those marked * that do not apply to SI Groups.
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