1st Hardwick and Highfields Scout Group

Analysis

1st Hardwick and Highfields Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridge. It was registered in May 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, disability and amateur sport, which this site groups under disability. It says it provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, 1st Hardwick and Highfields Scout Group reported income of £21k and spending of £18k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £3,524 to £21k (+494%), an average of +56% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 266%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, 1st Hardwick and Highfields 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 45th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shipdham Parochial and Fuel Allotment Charity (£21k), Crowthorne Community Minibus (£21k) and Huddersfield and District Society for the Deaf (£21k).