Budgets

Our Registration Fee for the 2007 / 2008 year will be $160. For families with three or more youth in the group the first two pay the full rate but all others pay $100.

The fee that the group pays to the Central Escarpment region is $158 per youth so we only keep $2 per youth to fund the local group operation. The $158 is split between the National and Regional levels to provide programming, insurance etc. The table below shows how the $158 is distributed.

The group has expenses as well. The pie chart below shows how our expenses are distributed. As you can see, about 1/3 of the expenses are for the rental of school facilities for the youth meetings. Just over another 1/3 goes to the individual sections to help defray the costs of some camps, pay for badges and other operating supplies. The remainder of the expenses are for leader training and uniforms, replacement of camp equipment and funding for the group sponsored events.

Our total expenses are projected to be approximately $8,174 for the 2007 scouting year. With only $2 per youth being retained at the local level it is not hard to see why our fundraising drives are so important to the continued operation of the group!