1st Wing Scout Group

Analysis

1st Wing Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leighton Buzzard. It was registered in February 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, 1st Wing Scout Group reported income of £26k and spending of £88k, spending 341% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £22k to £26k (+18%), an average of +4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 268%. Over the whole period it spent 119% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, 1st Wing Scout Group sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 1st Oswaldtwistle St Pauls Scout Group (£26k), Friends of Avanti House (Foah) (£26k) and The Friends of Moulsham Junior School (£26k).