40th Leicester Scout Group

Analysis

40th Leicester Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leicester. It was registered in September 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending February 2025, 40th Leicester Scout Group reported income of £14k and spending of £29k, spending 206% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from February 2021 to February 2025, income fell from £17k to £14k (-20%), an average of -5.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to February 2023, when income dropped by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, 40th Leicester Scout Group sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rookesbury Hall (£14k), Friends of Stoke Fleming School (£14k) and Friends of St Paul's C.e. Primary 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.