1st Wetherden and Haughley Scout Group

Analysis

1st Wetherden and Haughley Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stowmarket. It was registered in September 1962, 64 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 and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, 1st Wetherden and Haughley Scout Group reported income of £14k and spending of £17k, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £13k to £14k (+11%), an average of +2.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 126%. Over the whole period it spent 89% 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 Wetherden and Haughley 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 Ashill Village Hall (£14k), Friends of St Paul's C.e. Primary School (£14k) and The Harry Middleton Centre (£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.