1st Tonbridge Scout Group

Analysis

1st Tonbridge Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in December 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, 1st Tonbridge Scout Group reported income of £14k and spending of £14k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £33k to £14k (-58%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 102% 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 Tonbridge Scout Group sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Guillemot Trust (£14k), Centurion with Westgate Scout Group (£14k) and Burley Gate Village Hall (£14k).

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.