Tame Valley (Greater Manchester) District Scout Council

Analysis

Tame Valley (Greater Manchester) District Scout Council is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cheshire. It was registered in March 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space, provides services and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Tame Valley (Greater Manchester) District Scout Council reported income of £17k and spending of £20k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £9,615 to £17k (+76%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 95%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Tame Valley (Greater Manchester) District Scout Council 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 41st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Thaxted Public Tennis Courts Fund (£17k), Utkinton Village Hall (£17k) and 1st Castle Cary Scout Group (£17k).

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.