West Yorkshire North Guide Association

Analysis

West Yorkshire North Guide Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ilkley. It was registered in July 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, West Yorkshire North Guide Association reported income of £53k and spending of £71k, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £38k to £53k (+41%), an average of +9.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, West Yorkshire North Guide Association sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ynys Mon County Federation of Young Farmers Clubs (£53k), Great Western Youth and Brunel Brass Bands (£53k) and Ian M Foulerton Charitable Trust (£53k).