1st Bilbrook Codsall Scout Group

Analysis

1st Bilbrook Codsall Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wolverhampton. It was registered in October 1977, 49 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 2026, 1st Bilbrook Codsall Scout Group reported income of £11k and spending of £17k, spending 153% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income fell from £12k to £11k (-3.5%), an average of -0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 133% 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 Bilbrook Codsall Scout Group sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 33rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Neuadd Goffadwriaethol 1914-1919 (£11k), CLWB Cledlyn Club (£11k) and Atkinson and Clarke Educational Foundation (£11k).

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.