1st/3rd Bookham Scout Group

Analysis

1st/3rd Bookham Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leatherhead. It was registered in December 1969, 57 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, 1st/3rd Bookham Scout Group reported income of £90k and spending of £81k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £42k to £90k (+115%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 87% 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/3rd Bookham Scout Group sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Braintree and Bocking Public Gardens (£90k), Scouts Association Polyapes Scout Camp Site (£90k) and Edlesborough Community Sports Club Charitable Incorporated Organisation (£90k).