Cheshire Border County Guides Association

Analysis

Cheshire Border County Guides Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cheshire. It was registered in June 1982, 44 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Cheshire Border County Guides Association reported income of £85k and spending of £99k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £14k to £85k (+515%), an average of +58% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 256%. Over the whole period it spent 138% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Cheshire Border County Guides Association sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% 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 Chipping Steam Fair (£85k), Chelmsford City Youth Football Club (£85k) and Glen Howe Park (£85k).

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.