Belchamps Scout Centre

Analysis

Belchamps Scout Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Essex. It was registered in November 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, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Belchamps Scout Centre reported income of £221k and spending of £228k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £183k to £221k (+21%), an average of +4.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Belchamps Scout Centre sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 11th (Royal School of Signals) Signal Regiment and Blandford Garrison Regimental Institute Service Fund (£221k), Wrekenton Nou Camp Youth Football Club (£221k) and The Mersea Island Community Association (£221k).