Boston District Scout Association

Analysis

Boston District Scout Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lincolnshire. It was registered in February 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it provides human resources.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Boston District Scout Association reported income of £39k and spending of £55k, spending 140% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £39k to £39k (+1.5%), an average of +0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Boston District Scout Association sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Chase Bridge (£39k), William Older's School Charity (£39k) and Caenhill Countryside Centre (£39k).

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.