1st Ystrad Mynach Scout Group

We are a very active Scout Group - Beavers, Cubs & Scouts all enjoy the benefits of camping, hiking, kayaking and various other water sports, archery and lots of badge work developing skills for life.

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

In Wales

• Caerphilly

Area of benefit in its governing document: Ystrad Mynach

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £16,621 and spent £13,149.

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

Up 180%, from £5,938 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £16,621 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 79% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent less than its income in each 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 December 2025: £2,026 from 2 grants. 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 £4,921, awarded in 2014.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Dr Gareth Eric O'KeeffeChairAppointed 13 June 2023
• Gareth Rhys EdwardsAppointed 13 June 2023
• Group Secretary
• Matthew Mark WitcombeAppointed 13 June 2023

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

524902

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

11 December 1963

Governing document

CONVEYANCE DATED 23RD FEBRUARY 1961 UPON THE TRUSTS OF THE BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION TRUST DEED 1955

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

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