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Cadets: what the records show from outside

A body sees its own members and the people who reach them. Public records see every charity in England at once. This page sets the two side by side for cadets: who else does this work, where the network is thin, how exposed the field is, and how the people it serves are written about.

1. Who else does this work

116 charities in England are in this field by name or by membership. 21,772 other charities, outside it, say in their own latest annual report that they serve the same people: 99.5% of all the charities that name them. By what the register records them as doing:

Register purpose	Charities outside the field naming the people
Education/training	12,633
General charitable purposes	6,696
Religious activities	6,673
Poverty relief	5,107
Disability	4,305
Health	4,236
Economic/community development, employment	4,197
Arts, culture, heritage, science	4,112
Amateur sport	3,415
Recreation	2,536
Other purposes	2,211
Environment	2,087

A charity records up to three purposes, so the rows overlap.

Among them, charities that are themselves in another of the fields on this site: 2,130 young people; 212 youth centres; 204 disability services; 168 mental health; 150 local infrastructure; 126 families with young children; 122 veterans; 102 learning disability.

Of those outside the field, 26.5% show under three months’ reserves or three years of deficits, against 14.0% of the field itself.

2. Where the network is thin

31 of the 152 county and unitary areas of England are in the thinnest fifth of Sea Cadets’s presence per person in need. The median share of residents on low incomes in those areas is 27.2%, against 24.6% across England.

Area	Share of residents on low incomes	Thin in how many of 24 fields on this site
Birmingham	42.0%	8
Tower Hamlets	41.8%	9
Barking and Dagenham	38.6%	16
Brent	36.9%	11
Bradford	36.2%	7
Walsall	35.9%	13
Leicester	34.9%	11
Nottingham	33.8%	9
Bolton	33.2%	7
Ealing	32.1%	11
Coventry	29.9%	7
Sheffield	28.3%	6
Croydon	27.9%	6
Redbridge	27.5%	14
Camden	27.5%	6

The 15 with the most residents on low incomes are shown, of 31.

Across every field on this site, the areas thin in most of them: Isles of Scilly (17 of 21), Barking and Dagenham (16 of 24), Portsmouth (16 of 24), Hartlepool (16 of 25), Rutland (16 of 25), Thurrock (16 of 25), City of London (15 of 24), Havering (15 of 24), Hillingdon (15 of 24), Lambeth (14 of 24).

What this can and cannot say. A thin area is one where the body’s own listed places and its charities’ recorded areas of operation are few for the people counted there. It does not mean nobody there gets help: section 1 is the measure of who else is at work.

3. Money and exposure

Fragile means under three months’ reserves on the latest return, or spending above income for three years running. Government-dependent means half or more of income from government grants and contracts.

Group	Charities	Fragile	Reserves (months, median)	Income change over returns (median)	Donations share (median)
The field	112	14.3%	7.5	22.5%	88.0%
All other charities in England	67,996	20.8%	4.4	39.6%	28.5%
The field, government-dependent	9	33.3%	5	134.5%	88.0%
The field, not dependent	103	12.6%	–	20.7%	–
The field, in the most deprived third of neighbourhoods	35	8.6%	–	28.9%	–
The field, in the least deprived third	26	15.4%	–	19.1%	–

7.8% of the field is government-dependent.

4. How the people are written about

Of the 21,859 charities whose latest report names young people, 23.6% write of them beside words of lack (vulnerable, struggling, crisis, hardship, isolated) and 43.2% beside words of what they bring (skills, work, leadership, confidence, potential, independence). Across every population on this site the sector’s figures are 23.4% and 25.5%. This field’s people are written about mostly by what they bring.

5. Sea Cadets’s members against the rest of the field

91 charities in the field are on Sea Cadets’s own list or record its membership; 25 are not.

Measure	Members	Rest of the field
Fragile (share)	11.1%	27.3%
Government-dependent (share)	5.5%	16.7%
Reserves, months (median)	–	7.5
Income change over returns, % (median)	23.5	10.6
Donations share, % (median)	–	88
Income, £ (median)	39,352	50,997
No income source over 60% (share)	–	0.0%
Report names the people (share)	79.1%	76.0%
Writes of what they bring (share)	92.6%	73.7%

A figure is shown only for a group of five or more; a median is of the charities with the figure on their return.

What this can and cannot say. These are counts over groups of charities and places in England, from their own returns and reports and from national statistics. They show where a field stands beside the rest of the sector; they do not rank any charity, name any, or say why.