1st Highfield Scout Group

Analysis

1st Highfield Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Derbyshire. It was registered in January 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, 1st Highfield Scout Group reported income of £27k and spending of £25k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £5,917 to £27k (+355%), an average of +46% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 260%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, 1st Highfield Scout Group sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 1st North Watford Scout Group (£27k), Alvechurch Educational Trust (£27k) and Aspley Guise Village Hall Management Committee (£27k).