1ST ATTLEBOROUGH ST MARY SCOUT GROUP

Registered charity 1012900 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as 1ST ATTLEBOROUGH (ST MARY'S) SCOUT GROUP

We are a scout group that provide weekly activities at our meetings, as well as trips and camps for our beavers cubs & scouts. Our hall is used by various other clubs.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIALS AS INDIVIDUALS, AS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS AND AS MEMBERS OF THEIR LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE NORFOLK

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Amateur Sport · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Breckland, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£35k
Latest spending
£32k
Registered
1992
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group holds reserves to ensure continuity of activities and has a waiting list of members, indicating ongoing demand. However, the trustees note that capitation costs have increased and the group requires more volunteer leaders to ensure it continues to run. The group is also reliant on securing a new hall lease, which has been held by the Town Council's solicitor for many months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Membership (38% of income)
“Membership £13,635.00” — page 1
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: a reserve to ensure the continuity of activities should there be a major reduction in income together with funds for maintenance and capital works (reserves figure: £26k)
“The Group does hold a reserve to ensure the continuity of activities should there be a major reduction in income together with funds for maintenance and capital works”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 16

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 20

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 20

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — 1st Attleborough Scouts (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£35k£32k
31/03/2024£34k£40k
31/03/2023£21k£32k
31/03/2022£38k£38k
31/03/2021£31k£14k

Common questions

Is 1ST ATTLEBOROUGH ST MARY SCOUT GROUP financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the group holds reserves to ensure continuity of activities and has a waiting list of members, indicating ongoing demand. However, the trustees note that capitation costs have increased and the group requires more volunteer leaders to ensure it continues to run. The group is also reliant on securing a new hall lease, which has been held by the Town Council's solicitor for many months.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund30/05/2007£10kClimbing Wall with Abseil Tower
The National Lottery Community Fund14/10/2004£5kYouth activity centre

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE HULL AND EAST RIDING CHARITABLE TRUST1£5k

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with 1ST OTTERY ST MARY SCOUT GROUP.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
1ST ATTLEBOROUGH ST MARY SCOUT GROUP£35k—0above—no doubt
1ST OTTERY ST MARY SCOUT GROUP FY2026£29k——unclear—no doubt
PORTOBELLO (METHODIST) SCOUT GROUP FY2025£23k—0unclear—no doubt
84TH CARDIFF (CHRISTCHURCH) SCOUT GROUP FY2025£34k——above—no doubt
23RD SALISBURY (ST FRANCIS) SCOUT GROUP FY2025£37k—0unclear—no doubt
1ST DURRINGTON SCOUT GROUP FY2026£50k——unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.