Gwent Area Scout Council

Analysis

Gwent Area Scout Council is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chepstow. It was registered in May 1996, 30 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, Gwent Area Scout Council reported income of £171k and spending of £170k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £17k to £171k (+933%), an average of +79% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 2098%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Gwent Area Scout Council sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Margarets Pre-School Laceby (£171k), The Thames Valley and Great Western Omnibus Trust (£171k) and Busy Bees Preschool (At Southwick Methodist Church) (£171k).