1st Grays Scout Group

Analysis

1st Grays Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Grays. It was registered in January 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, 1st Grays Scout Group reported income of £12k and spending of £12k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £32k to £12k (-63%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 80%. Over the whole period it spent 69% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, 1st Grays 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 34th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include PTFA Nailsworth CE Primary School (£12k), Ashfield School and Home Association (£12k) and The Friends of St Botolphs School Peterborough (£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.