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Leisure Charities That specialise in Sports

Discover 3,216 Leisure charities that specialise in sports. Use the search below to filter within these results.

3,216
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.

Alexander Memorial Playing Field

Education, Facilities, Leisure

Maintains and controls an area of level ground as a playing field for local cricket and football clubs, the free enjoyment by village residents and visiting members of the public, and for recreational and religious events as considered beneficial to the community, including use by pupils at the village school.

Latest Income: £956
Areas of Operation: Wiltshire
Status: Registered
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Valiant Swimming Club

Leisure

Swimming Activities for the Disabled

Latest Income: £956
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Sarah Robinson Memorial Fund

Leisure

Sport/Recreation

Latest Income: £955
Areas of Operation: Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
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The Ashton Trust

Leisure

The trust overseas the land currently occupied by Flowery Field Cricket Club.

Latest Income: £950
Areas of Operation: Tameside
Status: Registered
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Broad Oak Recreation Ground Trust

Beneficiary group, Facilities, Leisure

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PARK OR RECREATION GROUND PROVIDING AMATUER SPORT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND THE COMMUNITY. ALSO BUILDINGS FACILITIES AND OPEN SPACE

Latest Income: £950
Areas of Operation: Kirklees
Status: Registered
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Sussex County Bowls (men's Section) Benevolent Fund

Beneficiary group, Leisure, Social welfare

The Fund assists Sussex bowlers in need and poor dependents of deceased bowlers.

Latest Income: £947
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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Chew Valley Young Farmers' Club

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Economic and community development, Leisure

A rural charity for young people aged between 10-26 years, where they can learn new rural skills and achieve confidence through public speaking competitions, stockjudging and running their own club and fundraising for themselves and the local community. Members also learn to participate in team events such as sports, drama and entertainments, choir and dancing. This is a member led organisation.

Latest Income: £939
Areas of Operation: Bath And North East Somerset
Status: Registered
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Playing Field

Beneficiary group, Childcare, Facilities, Leisure

To maintain the village recreation area for the benefit of all villagers. To provide and maintain football and cricket pitches and a playground for the village children.

Latest Income: £931
Areas of Operation: Bedford
Status: Registered
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King George's Field, Mountfield

Leisure

A SPORTS FIELD, PARTICULARLY CRICKET, STOOLBALL AND ARCHERY. THE FIELD IS ALSO USED FOR COMMUNITY EVENTS.

Latest Income: £925
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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Whitfield Parish Hall (village Hall)

Arts, Associations, Beneficiary group, Education, Facilities, Leisure

We hold WI classes, meetings, sport activities. social occasions & catering in our new kitchen. The local school cooked in while the school was being renovated, children's partys, line dancing.

Latest Income: £918
Areas of Operation: Northumberland
Status: Registered
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The Banbury And District Sports Association For The Disabled

Leisure

Latest Income: £903
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Northchurch Sports Association

Leisure

Provision of sports facilities in Northchurch

Latest Income: £903
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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Hexham Spinal Unit Sports Club

Leisure

Our charitys aims are to enable spinaly injured wheelchair users to come to terms with there injuries through sport and socialisation, wheelcair users without spinal injuries are welcome to join our club.

Latest Income: £900
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Terrapins Swimming Club For The Disabled

Leisure

Swimming club for people with disabilities

Latest Income: £895
Areas of Operation: Cheshire West & Chester
Status: Registered
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Barracuda Swimming Club

Leisure

We assist the disabled to be safe in water. We teach using the Halliwick method. It encourages independence and self reliance. We further develop those skills.

Latest Income: £890
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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Alta Sports Club For The Disabled

Education, Leisure, Saving of lives

We are a group of disabled swimmers and their helpers (aged 10 to 95) from the local community who meet once a week at the University of Birmingham "Sport & Fitness" swimming pool. We have a session from 13.05 to 14.00 every Sunday in a 1.2 metre deep, 25 metre long pool. We have 2 lifeguards, poolside wheelchairs, hoists, steps and platforms to assist with entry and exit to and from the pool.

Latest Income: £873
Areas of Operation: Birmingham City
Status: Registered
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The Heapey And Wheelton Charity Trust

Leisure

Sport and Recreation for solely the residents who live within the parishes of Heapey and Wheelton

Latest Income: £870
Areas of Operation: Lancashire
Status: Registered
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Leek Wootton War Memorial Recreation Ground

Facilities, Heritage, Leisure

To provide open space and provision for buildings in the Parish of Leek Wootton & Guy's Cliffe in Warwickshire. For use by the inhabitants to participate in various recreational, sporting, social and educational activities, with the objective of improving the life and community for the said inhabitants.

Latest Income: £864
Areas of Operation: Warwickshire
Status: Registered
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Recreation Ground And Playing Field

Facilities, Leisure

Supporting sports groups in the community, ie Bowls Club, Cricket Club, Football Club & providing management team for recreation ground & pavillion

Latest Income: £835
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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The Spennithorne And Harmby Sports Association

Leisure

Promotes & encourages Sports & Liesure activities and provides the facilities for said activities.

Latest Income: £825
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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The Blockley Educational Trust

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Leisure

Provides young people in the Parish of Blockley with grants to help with music tuition and expenses in relation to educational travel and sports.

Latest Income: £807
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Ruspidge Welfare Trust

Facilities, Leisure, Social welfare

Provide open spaces and facilities for play, recreation, socialising and football for the use of all in the village of Ruspidge.

Latest Income: £804
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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The Ludwig Guttmann Paraplegic Sports Foundation

Leisure

The promotion and encouragement of active sports among paraplegics and tetraplegics

Latest Income: £779
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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Shropshire Playing Fields Association

Charitable activities, Facilities, Leisure

To advise, lobby and campaign towards the protection, enhancement and provision of playing fields and play facilities in local communities. To promote play, sport, informal recreation and physical activity in local communities.

Latest Income: £776
Areas of Operation: Shropshire
Status: Registered
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Rotary Club Of Hounslow Silver Jubilee Trust

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Leisure

It provides help and support to children and young people up to the age of 23 years for those living or working in Hounslow and neighobouring boroughs for education training and sport by making grants to individuals and organisations, paying fees and sponsoring events so as to develop their physical and mental capacities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society.

Latest Income: £755
Areas of Operation: Hounslow
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many sports leisure charities are there in the UK?

There are 3,216 registered sports leisure charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the sports 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 sports leisure charities?

Sports 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 sports leisure charities?

Across all sports 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 sports leisure charities?

Sports 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.