1st Cefn Fforest Scout Group

Analysis

1st Cefn Fforest Scout Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hengoed. It was registered in November 1968, 58 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 December 2025, 1st Cefn Fforest Scout Group reported income of £21k and spending of £22k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £15k to £21k (+39%), an average of +8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 96%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, 1st Cefn Fforest Scout Group sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Little Leigh School Folls (£21k), Friends of Bathford School (£21k) and 1st Woodham Ferrers Scout Group (£21k).