1st Roath Scout Group

Analysis

1st Roath Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cardiff. It was registered in May 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, 1st Roath Scout Group reported income of £15k and spending of £22k, spending 143% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £28k to £15k (-45%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, 1st Roath Scout Group sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of King's College London Maths School (£15k), Friends of Sacred Heart Ware (£15k) and Friends of Thornden School (£15k).

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.