Cleveland Scout Council

Analysis

Cleveland Scout Council is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Middlesbrough. It was registered in November 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Cleveland Scout Council reported income of £88k and spending of £108k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £47k to £88k (+87%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 168%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Cleveland Scout Council sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% 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 The Society of the Inner Light Limited (£88k), Carnarvon Primary School Fund (£88k) and Arthur Ingram Trust (£88k).

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.