THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 306101 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCOUTS

SCOUTING ACTIVELY ENGAGES AND SUPPORTS YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, EMPOWERING THEM TO MAKE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY.

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased by £3.1m to £79.4m due to an unrestricted deficit of £5.7m, partially offset by increased restricted funds. The trustees report that free reserves of £35.1m are below the stated policy target of approximately £39m, noting that reserves are expected to reduce further in the coming year as the charity works toward a break-even budget by 2027.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Scout Association (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): linkedin

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Senior Software Developer — £72325.00-£72325.00 per year · Gilwell Park, Essex (On-site) · posted 6 days ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• People Change & Organisational Manager — £55000.00-£55000.00 per year · Gilwell Park, Essex (On-site) · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• Project Manager (Safe Scouting) — £45673.00-£47433.00 per year · Gilwell Park, Essex (On-site) · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• Ground Maintenance Manager — £30888.00-£30888.00 per year · Gilwell Park, Essex (On-site) · posted 5 days ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• Insurance Apprentice — £11648.00-£20748.00 per year · The Quadrant Business Park (On-site) · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (53% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 19.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Richard Woodchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Adrian Pashley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amy Louise Gilbert
• Callum Edward Pope Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carl Damian Hankinson
• Charlotte Thompson
• Chloe Foster
• Christopher David William Lomas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Kathryn Jean Marks
• James Aidan Jones
• Kayleigh Jane Finlay
• Lei Wei · trustee of 2 other charities
• Malcolm William Rusk Farquhar
• Matteo Violi
• Nigel Ball
• Oliver Rhodes · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ollie Wood
• Satvika Mishra
• Sharon Rose
• Stephen James Reeves · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CORNWALL COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL.

• CORNWALL COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £101k
• EXETER AND DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £198k
• KENNET DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £124k
• LEWISHAM DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £470k
• CROMWELL DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £119k
• 14TH HOVE (ST ANDREWS PORTSLADE) SCOUT GROUP income £188k

Side by side with its peers

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