Deal and Dover District Scout Council

Analysis

Deal and Dover District Scout Council is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in St Margaret's at Cliffe. It was registered in September 1968, 58 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 March 2025, Deal and Dover District Scout Council reported income of £18k and spending of £20k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £8,589 to £18k (+109%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Deal and Dover District Scout Council sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alton Westbrook District Guides (£18k), Friends of St Lukes, Slyne with Hest (£18k) and King George's Field, Sarratt (£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.