Scouts Canada Annual Report 04/05 Analysis

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04/05
Annual Report - Scouts Canada National

It's that time of year again. The annual figures of expenses, Census and
awards come out. I hope you have your trusty hard hat, a pick and a
whistle on your lips. Why? Because we're going data mining.

(I also have in front of me, the 03/04 annual report, so I'll be using that data as well where possible)

Lets start with the Census.

03/04
04/05
Difference
% Change

Beavers
31, 089
27,685
- 3,404
- 10.9%

Cubs
34,459
30,027
- 4,432
- 12.9%

Scouts
17,755
16,293
- 1,462
- 8.2%

Venturers
5,157
4,776
- 381
- 7.4%

Rovers
1,010
933
- 77
- 7.6%

SCOUTSabout
4,138
3,839
- 299
- 7.2%

Extreme Adventure
210
250
+ 40
+ 19.0%

Other
NO DATA
676
+ 676

Total Youth
94, 230
84,479
- 9,751
- 10.3%

Adults
27,928
>25,526
- 2,402
- 8.6%

Grand Total
122,158
110,005
-12,153
- 9.9%

• So it looks like we are continuing to bleed at 10% per year (averaging). Not good folks.
  
• Cubs saw the greatest loss at 12.9% loss. That's one in every eight cubs got up and left us. Is there a reason so many have left us?
  
• We now have gone below 1000 Rovers. (On the bright side, its now that much easier to get all the rovers to sign a petition to bring back red berets :P)
  
• The only group that went up was Extreme Adventure. Being the smallest group out there, a small change in numbers would bring about larger percentage change.
  

Alright, with only two years of data, (and only section totals) there isn't a whole lot of data mining to be done there , but still useful. Well I'm going to skip over awards, generally since they didn't give a decent break down this year, and they aren't so interesting.

Now for the fun one. The Money.

Think back. Way back. All the way to the 2003-2004 year. We had a few minor changes made to Scouts Canada. We all had to change badges. That's right, that was the year we Restructured and went from districts and regions to areas and councils. any body case to wager how much they spent on all that rigmarole?

1.184 Million dollars Canadian. (I'm stretching it out for dramatic effect)

And they chose quite the year to chose to do it too. For the end of the 02/03 year, they ran a deficit of $760 000. Without the restructuring, they would have made a profit of $720 000 in 03/04. Instead they ran another deficit of $433 000.

Which brings us to the new data, 04/05.
With a revenue of $11 637 000 and expenses of $11 863 000, we ran up another deficit of $226 000. Bit better, but not as nice as the year before.

Except if you keep looking down you see that they spent another $467 000 on restructuring, bringing the deficit for last year to $679 000.

• If we all had given six bucks more each to National for membership fees, they could have covered this years deficit
  
• Why are we still paying for Restructuring? What did we do that cost so much?
  
• Why did it cost so much in the first place?
  

Well I'll leave you with that. I'm sure I'm missing some other analysis, but this is what you get when I got the report at 11:00 at night, and I've been up since 5:30 AM.