Blackpool District Scout Council

Analysis

Blackpool District Scout Council is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Blackpool. It was registered in November 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Blackpool District Scout Council reported income of £147k and spending of £170k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £76k to £147k (+93%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 1188%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Blackpool District Scout Council sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Leek Town Juniors Football Club (£147k), Letchworth and Baldock District Scout Council (£147k) and Tunbridge Wells Unit 340 of the Sea Cadet Corps (£147k).