Crai District Scout Council

The merger of the three District Scout Councils of Caerphilly, Rhymney Valley and Islwyn was completed smoothly and the new CRAI District Scout Council continues to grow in Membership. The change of District Commissioner had no effect on the smooth running. The Council's may objectives to promote Scouting and the support to individal Scout Groups has been maintained and enhanced.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Caerphilly

Area of benefit in its governing document: In Practice Rhymney Valley

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £66,311 and spent £52,861.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 61%, from £167,900 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £66,311 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 80% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 August 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £2,012, awarded in 2021.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

8 trustees run the charity.

• Alan Edward BrittAppointed 26 June 2020
• Cerys SageAppointed 30 September 2021
• Deborah WilliamsAppointed 30 September 2021
• Gillian SmithAppointed 25 March 2025
• Maria Caroline PittenAppointed 26 June 2020
• Richard TerrellAppointed 31 December 2015
• Ryan SageAppointed 25 March 2025
• Sartha RajooAppointed 25 March 2025

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1071302

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

2 September 1998

Governing document

ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 4 JANUARY 1912

Website

www.craiscouts.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Caerphilly

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Caerphilly Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Caerphilly's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Casnewydd Islwyn