1st Towcester Scout Group

Analysis

1st Towcester Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Northamptonshire. It was registered in August 1969, 57 years ago. Its declared purposes cover amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, 1st Towcester Scout Group reported income of £23k and spending of £24k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £27k to £23k (-18%), an average of -4.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 104% 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 Towcester Scout Group sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cutnall Green Young Farmers'club (£22k), 3rd Chiswick Scout Group (£23k) and The Charlotte Pratt Memorial Hall (£22k).

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.