1st Wymondham Scout Group

Analysis

1st Wymondham Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wymondham. It was registered in April 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, 1st Wymondham Scout Group reported income of £28k and spending of £29k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £21k to £28k (+32%), an average of +7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 103% 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 Wymondham 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 51st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 1st Bovingdon Scouts (£28k), Hutton Village Hall (£28k) and 3rd Wingerworth Scout Group (£28k).

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.