Brickhill Bedford (North) Scout Group

Analysis

Brickhill Bedford (North) Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bedford. It was registered in September 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, amateur sport and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Brickhill Bedford (North) Scout Group reported income of £10k and spending of £14k, spending 138% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £26k to £10k (-60%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Brickhill Bedford (North) Scout Group sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Aloeric School Parent Teacher Association (£10k), 2nd Hook (St Paul's) Scout Group (£10k) and Recreation Ground (£10k).

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.