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Registered charity · Bristol

Avon County Scout Council

Avon County Scout Council is a registered charity (number 302146) based in Bristol, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by Robert George Symons since 2024. Latest income £681k (2026). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as Avon County Scouts, The Scout County of Avon (Charity Commission)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £681k (2026)
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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Recreation
Where
North Somerset, Bath And North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bristol City
Website
www.avonscouts.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£681k£711k
  • 2025£717k£677k
  • 2024£597k£528k
Earlier years
  • 2023£499k£439k
  • 2022£219k£161k

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIALS AS INDIVIDUALS, AS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS AND AS MEMBERS OF THEIR LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES.

Grants received

15 grants · £138,865 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £60,156 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £34,375 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £17,187
  • Sport England · £14,810 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £8,200

Most recent

  • Quartet Community Foundation £2502021-05-25
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £17,1872019-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £17,1872019-04-01
  • Quartet Community Foundation £1,5002017-11-23
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport £17,1872017-07-05
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

12 trustees on the board

2.7y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

1
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 12Recreation 12

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£717k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

11.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 10.1 in 2021

11 from 8 in 2024
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
302146
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER DATED 4 JANUARY 1912 AND SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTERS DATED 28 MARCH 1949, 18 FEBRUARY 1959, 5 MAY 1967 AND 19 JULY 1991
Contact on the register
01454613006 · office@avonscouts.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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