Dunstable District Scout Council

Analysis

Dunstable District Scout Council is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dunstable. It was registered in July 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Dunstable District Scout Council reported income of £34k and spending of £32k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £16k to £34k (+114%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Dunstable District Scout Council sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wantage Band (£34k), Venus Blazing Music Trust (£34k) and Friends of Longparish School (£34k).