1st Welling Boy Scout Group

Analysis

1st Welling Boy Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chatham. It was registered in September 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it provides human resources.

In the financial year ending March 2025, 1st Welling Boy Scout Group reported income of £13k and spending of £23k, spending 181% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £23k to £13k (-45%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, 1st Welling Boy Scout Group sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 1st Lytham St Annes (St Cuthbert's) Scout Group (£13k), The Polperro Fishermens Choir (£13k) and The Airey Neave Trust (£13k).

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.