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Registered charity · London

The Scout Association

The Scout Association is a registered charity (number 306101) based in London, governed by 20 trustees and chaired by Daniel Richard Wood since 2026. Latest income £47m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Scouts (Charity Commission)

  • 20 trustees
  • Income £47m (2025)
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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Amateur Sport, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.scouts.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Scout Association
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£47m£51m
  • 2024£54m£60m
  • 2023£36m£37m
Earlier years
  • 2022£30m£30m
  • 2021£27m£27m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable 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

Grants received

157 grants · £10,518,526 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £4,914,868 (2 grants)
  • Pears Foundation · £2,577,587 (6 grants)
  • Postcode Children Trust · £1,000,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £491,681 (75 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £471,087

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

20 trustees on the board

1.8y median 1y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (6)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 20Amateur Sport 19Economic/community Development/employment 17The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Environment/conservation/heritage 1Other Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 4Education 2Other services 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£46.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

8.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 25.9 in 2021

516 from 332 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
306101
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER DATED 4 JANUARY 1912 AND SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTERS DATED 28 MARCH 1949, 18 FEBRUARY 1959, 5 MAY 1967, 19 JULY 1991 AS AMENDED ON 8 FEBRUARY 2018 AS AMENDED ON 30 APR 2019 AS AMENDED ON 12 FEB 2020
Companies House
Company number RC000547 · Active
Contact on the register
0208 433 7182 · governance@scouts.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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