3rd Newhaven Scout Group

Analysis

3rd Newhaven Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Sussex. It was registered in April 1984, 42 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 provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, 3rd Newhaven Scout Group reported income of £17k and spending of £24k, spending 140% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £29k to £17k (-42%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, 3rd Newhaven Scout Group sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% 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 Chipperfield Clarendon Cricket Club Limited (£17k), Failand & Portbury Cricket Club (£17k) and Heath and Reach 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.