What Trustees is for
Trustees keeps a Scout group's Trustee Board on top of what it's responsible for. The list comes from Scouts' own Trustee Board team description and its meeting agenda prompts: the budget and reserves, policies and the law, buildings and insurance, risk, safeguarding and learning, the board itself, and the AGM.
It shares its sign-in and group with the other Tools for Scouting apps, so if your group already uses one, sign in with the same email and your group is there.
Finding your way around. The menu down the side keeps Responsibilities at the top, then groups the rest under The board, The year and Records, with Settings and Members at the bottom. Click the name of a group to fold it away, or Hide the menu to fold the whole thing down to a strip of icons for more room; the button at the top of the strip brings it back. On a phone the menu is a single Menu button.
Start with Settings. Give it your financial year end, whether you're a registered charity, your income and whether you have premises. Every date in Trustees hangs off those.
For Group, District and County boards in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Choose which, and your country, in Settings. A District board also gets a duty to check how its Groups are getting on, networking for Group trustees, and AGM steps for sending its accounts up (to the County Treasurer, the Region's in Scotland) and naming its Scout Council representatives. A County board (an Area in Wales, a Region in Scotland) gets the same a level up: how its Districts are getting on, networking for District trustees, inviting its Nominated Members on the Council of The Scout Association to its meetings, and its accounts sent to UK Headquarters and to its Regional Lead Volunteer, ScoutsCymru or Scouts Scotland. Northern Ireland has no County level: its Districts report straight to headquarters.