5th Urmston (Aquilifer) Scout Group

Analysis

5th Urmston (Aquilifer) Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in February 1965, 61 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, 5th Urmston (Aquilifer) Scout Group reported income of £43k and spending of £48k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £40k to £43k (+6.1%), an average of +1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, 5th Urmston (Aquilifer) Scout Group sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Commonweal Trust (£43k), The Friends of Walker School (£43k) and The International Colleges of Islamic Science (£43k).

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.