1st Apsley Scout Group

Analysis

1st Apsley Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hertfordshire. It was registered in April 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 provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, 1st Apsley Scout Group reported income of £134k and spending of £147k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £51k to £134k (+162%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 90%. Over the whole period it spent 102% 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 Apsley Scout Group sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Frodsham Junior Football Club (£134k), Bethwin Road Neighbourhood Playground Association (£134k) and Frampton Cotterell Rugby Football Club (£134k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.