Wakefield District Scout Council

Analysis

Wakefield District Scout Council is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wakefield. It was registered in December 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Wakefield District Scout Council reported income of £83k and spending of £93k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £20k to £83k (+322%), an average of +43% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 261%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Wakefield District Scout Council sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Greenwich Tritons (£83k), The Sheffield Bluecoat and Mount Pleasant Educational Foundation (£83k) and Erdington Recreational Trust (£83k).