29th Croydon (St Johns) Scout Group

Analysis

29th Croydon (St Johns) Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Croydon. It was registered in February 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides human resources.

In the financial year ending December 2025, 29th Croydon (St Johns) Scout Group reported income of £13k and spending of £12k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £18k to £13k (-26%), an average of -7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, 29th Croydon (St Johns) Scout Group sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Edwalton Primary School Parents' Association (£13k), Swarraton and Northington Village Hall (£13k) and Sissinghurst Village Hall (£13k).