1st / 27th Croydon Scout Group

Analysis

1st / 27th Croydon Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Croydon. It was registered in January 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it provides human resources.

In the financial year ending December 2025, 1st / 27th Croydon Scout Group reported income of £12k and spending of £15k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £28k to £12k (-56%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, 1st / 27th Croydon Scout Group sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ipswich High School Charitable Foundation (£12k), The Friends of Caldecott Primary School (£12k) and The Paston Foundation (£12k).

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.