Skip to main content Skip to navigation

Leisure Charities That specialise in Recreation

Discover 4,072 Leisure charities that specialise in recreation. Use the search below to filter within these results.

4,072
Charities
£2,704,707,050
Total Income
£272,076
Avg Income
81.8%
Program Ratio

Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.

Bristol U3a

Education, Leisure

U3A offers a programme of educational and leisure activities for retired people where members contribute their own experience, interests and enthusiasms actively, so that they learn from each other.

Latest Income: £39,359
Areas of Operation: Bristol City
Status: Registered
View Details

Ebbw Vale Recreation Grounds And Institute

Facilities, Leisure

Provision and maintenance of a welfare institute and recreation grounds with the object of improving conditions of life for the inhabitants of the County Borough.

Latest Income: £39,263
Areas of Operation: Blaenau Gwent
Status: Registered
View Details

Cosby Village Hall

Arts, Beneficiary group, Facilities, Leisure

The Village Hall is used for dance, Karate, art, quilting and Tai Chi classes. There are recreational groups from Craft for children to Kurling. The Hall, situated on the Village Park, has shower and changing rooms used by the village cricket, rugby and adult and junior football teams.During the year the Hall has been used by for wedding, birthday, anniversary and children's parties

Latest Income: £39,239
Areas of Operation: Leicestershire
Status: Registered
View Details

Wheaton Aston Sports And Social Club

Associations, Facilities, Leisure

Providing Indoor and Outdoor facilities for the use of the Parishioners of Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston and any visitor or guest to the Parish.

Latest Income: £39,168
Areas of Operation: Staffordshire
Status: Registered
View Details

Beeston Musical Theatre Group

Arts, Leisure

Performing musical shows and concerts to the general public for their education and entertainment.

Latest Income: £39,152
Areas of Operation: Nottinghamshire
Status: Registered
View Details

The Wykeham Crown And Manor Trust

Beneficiary group, Leisure

Financing facilities for the education and recreation of young persons in London and elsewhere to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society and that their condition of life may be improved in particular by supporting the Crown and Manor Club, Hoxton and other clubs affiliated to the NABC Clubs for Young People

Latest Income: £39,151
Areas of Operation: Hackney
Status: Registered
View Details

Bensted's Charity

Leisure

GRANTS MADE TO QUALIFIED APPLICANTS FOR THE RELIEF OF OLD, SICK AND INFIRM PERSONS, AND FOR THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES.APPLICANTS MUST LIVE WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY THE TWENTY-FOUR PARISHES EAST OF TEYNHAM WITHIN THE BOUNDARY OF THE BOROUGH OF SWALE.

Latest Income: £39,097
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
View Details

Rotherwick Village Hall Charity

Facilities, Leisure

Provision of a Village Hall used as a meeting place and for social and recreational events

Latest Income: £39,076
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
View Details

Derbyshire Hill Community Association

Associations, Facilities, Leisure

To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Derbyshire Hill, and the neighbourhood there of, and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare, for recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants (B) to establish or to secure the establishment of a community centre.

Latest Income: £39,068
Areas of Operation: St Helens
Status: Registered
View Details

Willen Pavilion

Facilities, Leisure

Willen Pavilion is a local community centre and sports pitches, providing facilities for residents and community organisations to use for the purposes of education, sport, recreation and leisure activities.Our objectives include advancing education and providing facilities in the interests of social welfare.

Latest Income: £38,947
Areas of Operation: Milton Keynes
Status: Registered
View Details

Drinkstone War Memorial Institute

Facilities, Heritage, Leisure

The charity provides a Village Memorial Hall for the benefit of the local village community and others for recreational, educational and social purposes.

Latest Income: £38,832
Areas of Operation: Suffolk
Status: Registered
View Details

Malborough Village Hall And Playing Fields Association

Facilities, Leisure

The MVH & PFA provides the inhabitants of the Parish of Malborough and the immediate vicinity with facilities and a framework for their use for: Physical and mental training Recreation Social, moral and intellectual developmentThis provision shall be made without discrimination of on the grounds of sex, ethnicity, physical or mental ability or of political, religious or other opinion.

Latest Income: £38,761
Areas of Operation: Devon
Status: Registered
View Details

The Kenrick Park

Beneficiary group, Childcare, Facilities, Leisure

Kendrick Park is a public park in West Bromwich West Midlands with childen's play area, a youth multi use games area, skate park, grass sports football pitches and associated sports pavilion and network of paths. The park serves the local community for both active and passive recreation

Latest Income: £38,757
Areas of Operation: Sandwell
Status: Registered
View Details

Penrhyn New Hall Limited

Facilities, Leisure

The Company is a charity and exixts to promote temperance in Penrhyn Bay & Llandudno. Achieved through provision of a village hall and community centre providing facilities for the use of the local inhabitants of Penrhyn Bay consistant with the promotion of temperance including use for meetings, lectures and other forms of recreation and leisure.

Latest Income: £38,683
Areas of Operation: Conwy
Status: Registered
View Details

Fowlmere Recreation Ground And Village Hall

Beneficiary group, Childcare, Facilities, Leisure, Social welfare

Provides an outside recreation area for sport activities; football, cricket, tennisplus children's play.The Village Hall provides an important venue for local groups and clubs to meet including indoor sporting activities; aerobics, badminton, bowls, baby and toddler groups and a venue for social events; disco, parties, receptions. All age groups are catered for.

Latest Income: £38,664
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
View Details

Burton Memorial Hall

Facilities, Leisure

The Hall is used for the purpose of physical and mental training and recreation and social, moral and intellectual development through the provision of suitable rooms and stage for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Parish of Burton including Dalton and Clawthorpe without distinction of sex or of political, religious or other opinions.

Latest Income: £38,650
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
View Details

Milverton Recreation Ground

Beneficiary group, Facilities, Leisure

The Trustees administer the use of the village recreation ground and Sports Pavilion for the benefit of the village & particularly the young people of the village.

Latest Income: £38,619
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
View Details

The Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society

Arts, Leisure

To provide musical education and entertainment for the general public and for society members by preparing and giving concerts of classical choral music.

Latest Income: £38,611
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
View Details

Southbourne Village Hall

Facilities, Leisure

Village hall for the use of the inhabitants of the parish of Southbourne without distinction of political, religious or other opinions, including use for meetings, lectures and classes, and for other forms of recreation and leisure-time occupation, with the object of improving the condition of life for the said inhabitants.

Latest Income: £38,556
Areas of Operation: West Sussex
Status: Registered
View Details

Belton Recreation Ground

Facilities, Leisure

Sport/RecreationEventsCommunity Facility

Latest Income: £38,481
Areas of Operation: North Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
View Details

Beaconhill Community Association

Associations, Leisure

provide facilities for local residents to use for recreational purposes

Latest Income: £38,465
Areas of Operation: Northumberland
Status: Registered
View Details

The Mark Community Association

Associations, Facilities, Leisure

The provision of recreational and leisure facilities for the community, through the maintenance and development of amenities at the Village Hall and grounds.

Latest Income: £38,427
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
View Details

Amersham Common Village Hall

Facilities, Leisure

Amersham Common Village Hall is for the use of residents of Amersham and the surrounding area for meetings, recreation and leisure activities.

Latest Income: £38,418
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
View Details

New Tupton Miners' Welfare Institute And Recreation Ground

Facilities, Leisure, Professions

Provide buildings and facilities for charitable puposes for the general public.

Latest Income: £38,397
Areas of Operation: Derbyshire
Status: Registered
View Details

Ellesborough Parish Hall

Facilities, Leisure

Local Parish Hall providing meeting rooms and recreational facilities to local parishioners and others

Latest Income: £38,360
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
View Details
Previous Page 46 of 163 Next

Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many recreation leisure charities are there in the UK?

There are 4,072 registered recreation leisure charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the recreation leisure charities by income?

Royal Mencap Society is the largest by latest reported annual income (£244.4m). Notable peers are listed on this page; the full ranking is available by sorting the results by highest income.

What is the combined annual income of recreation leisure charities?

Recreation leisure charities reported a combined annual income of £2.7bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for recreation leisure charities?

Across all recreation leisure charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 81.8%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of recreation leisure charities?

Recreation leisure charities have an average annual income of £272k. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.