**SCOUTING IRELAND GROUP COUNCIL (GROUP TRUSTEES) ANNUAL REPORT CHARITY COMMISSION FOR 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.**
|**1.Charity Name as listed on the Charity Register**|**___________________________**Scouting
Ireland
1st/2nd/3rd Fermanagh Enniskillen Scout
Group|
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|**2. Financial year the report is for**|___________________________
01.09.2024 to 31.08.2025|
|**3. CCNI Charity Registration Number**|NIC_______________________
106241|
|**4. The address from which the Charity Operates**
**(usually your Scout hall)**|Erne Road,|
||Enniskillen|
||CountyFermanagh|
||BT74 6NN|
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|**5. The names of all our Trustees at the date of this**
**report plus any who stepped down as a trustee during**
**the year**|**Current Trustees**
Cora Watson|
||Charles Boyle|
||Becky-Louise Godly|
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||**Trustees who stepped down**
Ruairi Molloy|
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**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.**_
_**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 power to appoint charity trustees, such as another charity or a government department, provide their details, the relevant powers, and methods of appointment.**_
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**8. Include details of any funds held by the charity as a custodian trustee**
_This is mandatory for charities preparing accruals accounts._
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## **9. Charity’s Main Activities and Achievements during the year.**
The group operates a range of scouting programmes for young people aged from 5-18. The group delivers age appropriate scouting to 5 separate cohorts that meet weekly. In addition each programme section organises trips over and above weekly meetings. Our sections took part in a wide variety of events including ones organised at a county level where opportunities to mix with other scouts were available. These can be day trips or overnight trips for periods of up to a week.
Our leaders attended training to ensure skills were learned and maintained to provide an effective and safe youth programme.
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## **Charity’s Main Activities and Achievements during the year (contd.).**
Leaders also attended meetings at various levels to represent the group and their views
on issues within Scouting.
Our group also took part in various parades in the community including the St Patrick's day parade in Enniskillen. A large team of leaders and young people built a float and entered it into the town's main float parade ultimately winning the top prize for a third year running with their 'Shamrocks and Shared Stories' inspired float.
As a group we are open to all young people and adult volunteers without prejudice or discrimination. We have a diverse membership reflecting this.
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## **10. How is the Group doing financially?**
The group is financially healthy. However, there are many challenges facing the group at the time of writing. Rising overheads and falling membership, principally. In addition to these, Scouting Ireland, to whom we are affiliated have continuously raised the cost of membership for the last past several years. This for the past few years has continued to have an extremely detrimental effect on our group finances because of reduced membership in the post-covid space. That said, financial planning within the scope of this financial year on the part of our Group Treasurer and Committee members has ensured our finances are in a much healthier position than what they were initially post-covid, ensuring we as a Scout group can continue to build back and with the said continued development, restore our group to its pre-covid state.
## **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 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 ____________________________________Scouting Ireland can confirm that in**_ 1/2/3 Fermanagh Enniskillen SG _**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**
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24/05/2026
Date:____________________________
Signature of Trustees. (This should be signed by 2 Trustees approved by the Group Council)
Charles Boyle 24/05/2026
Trustee 1: ________________________________________ Date:________________________
Becky-Louise Godly 24/05/2026
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, Garavgh, 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.**
**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?**
**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.**
**12. This section is pre-filled in for you.**
**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 on**
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