1st Pitsea and Vange Scout Group

Analysis

1st Pitsea and Vange Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Essex. It was registered in November 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, amateur sport and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending April 2025, 1st Pitsea and Vange Scout Group reported income of £18k and spending of £20k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £24k to £18k (-24%), an average of -6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 219%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, 1st Pitsea and Vange Scout Group sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Scunthorpe Unit 298 of the Sea Cadet Corps (£18k), Friends of All Saints Church Headley Trust (£18k) and The Thomas Bell Trust (£18k).

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.