1st Burntwood Scout Group

Analysis

1st Burntwood Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Staffordshire. It was registered in August 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, 1st Burntwood Scout Group reported income of £14k and spending of £18k, spending 128% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £23k to £14k (-37%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, 1st Burntwood Scout Group sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 45% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Hillmorton Primary School (£14k), The Collins Priest Education Fund (£14k) and Friends of Monkton Park School (£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.