23rd Brighton (St Margarets, Rottingdean) Scout Group

Analysis

23rd Brighton (St Margarets, Rottingdean) Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Brighton. It was registered in June 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, amateur sport and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending August 2025, 23rd Brighton (St Margarets, Rottingdean) Scout Group reported income of £13k and spending of £16k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £22k to £13k (-39%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2024, when income rose by 102%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, 23rd Brighton (St Margarets, Rottingdean) Scout Group sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fell's Angels Wi (£13k), Mablethorpe Athletic Sports Association (£13k) and Flitwick and Ampthill Sea Cadets (£13k).

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.