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Leisure Charities

Discover 7,074 Leisure charities. Use the search below to filter within these results.

7,074
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.

Springboard Project

Arts, Beneficiary group, Leisure

The Springboard Project works with children and young people with or without disabilities and their families by providing inclusive play and leisure opportunities.

Latest Income: £469,100
Areas of Operation: Sutton
Status: Registered
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Mountain Training England

Leisure

Principal activity is the advancement for the public benefit of education and training in the skills required for the conduct of safe mountain walking and supervision of rock climbing.

Latest Income: £468,940
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Sidings Community Centre

Facilities, Leisure

Sidings Community Centre's main aim is to improve the quality of life for local people, by providing a range of recreational, social, cultural and educational opportunities and services, in consultation and partnership with the local community and other relevant agencies, primarily but not exclusively within the broad neighbourhood of West Hampstead and North Kilburn, London NW6.

Latest Income: £468,252
Areas of Operation: Camden
Status: Registered
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Tottenham Community Sports Centre

Facilities, Health, Leisure

To improve the health and wellbeing of the residents of Tottenham and the immediate surrounding areas by the provision of sports and community facilities.

Latest Income: £466,968
Areas of Operation: Haringey
Status: Registered
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Covent Garden Social And Crafts Centre Association

Arts, Facilities, Leisure

To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of central London, including Covent Garden, St Giles and Bloomsbury, the area bounded by the Strand, Aldwych, Kingsway, Great Russell Street and Charing Cross Road to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation, leisure and educational occupations with the object of improving the condition of life for said inhabitants.

Latest Income: £464,305
Areas of Operation: Camden
Status: Registered
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Chinese Association Of Tower Hamlets

Beneficiary group, Education, Housing, Leisure, Social care

Our charity offers Home Care services to frail elderly individuals, enabling them to live independently in their own homes. We provide a variety of classes at our centre, including Chinese calligraphy, Chinese medicine workshops, chair yoga, and a table tennis club, fostering personal well-being. We also operate a Saturday Chinese school for children, teaching Mandarin and Cantonese.

Latest Income: £462,783
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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The Springfields Horticultural Society Limited

Arts, Facilities, Leisure

To act as a horticultural society and to promote the study and practice of horticulture in all its branches and in particular, the cultivation and development of all varieties of flowers grown from bulbs and corms.

Latest Income: £456,859
Areas of Operation: Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
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Mencap Liverpool

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Education, Leisure, Social welfare

A local charity affiliated to but financially independent of the Royal Mencap Society.We work in Liverpool and Sefton with adults who have a mild- moderate learning disability. We aim to prevent social isolation and enable people to progress. We provide: outreach; befriending; a range of social groups and physical activities; workshops; volunteering, employability and LD awareness

Latest Income: £454,633
Areas of Operation: Liverpool City
Status: Registered
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Grace Communion International

Beneficiary group, Education, Leisure, Religion

To spread the Good News of Jesus Christ - this is done by holding services open to the public throughout the UK and Ireland, putting on conferences, providing resources online such as a daily devotional and the running of a two week youth summer camp with a variety of outdoor activities.

Latest Income: £454,165
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Camberley Gymnastics Club

Leisure

The principle activity is providing gymnastic and other physical recreation in the interests of social welfare in Rushmoor and the surrounding area. Other significant activity areas are coaching, competitions and training camps.

Latest Income: £453,782
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Ilford Islamic Centre Limited

Leisure, Religion

Advancement of religion and education and recreation facilities in accordance with the tenents of Islam

Latest Income: £447,561
Areas of Operation: Redbridge
Status: Registered
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The Girdlers' Company Charitable Trust

Leisure

Makes donations, almost exclusively in England, and in particular London, solely to registered charities or registered Community Amateur Sports Clubs. General applications are welcomed from these institutions who have an annual income less than -ú1 million, or whose beneficiaries reside in Peckham or Hammersmith.

Latest Income: £447,056
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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The Walker Cricket Ground

Leisure

MULTI SPORTS GROUND

Latest Income: £441,452
Areas of Operation: Enfield
Status: Registered
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Welsh Rugby Charitable Trust

Leisure

The principal aim of the charity is to help and support those who have been seriously injured whilst playing rugby football in Wales.

Latest Income: £441,381
Areas of Operation: Wales
Status: Registered
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Forest School Camps

Beneficiary group, Education, Leisure

Providing supervised camping activities for young people of an educational nature.

Latest Income: £441,367
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Trafford Mencap

Beneficiary group, Leisure

a)The relief of people with a learning disability in particular by provision of help and support for them and for their families dependents and carers.b)To provide or assist in the provision of facilities for the recreation or other leisure time occupation for people with a learning disability.

Latest Income: £441,000
Areas of Operation: Cheshire East
Status: Registered
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Dinnington Community Centre And Recreation Ground

Facilities, Leisure

The provision and the maintenance of the community centre and recreation ground for the use of the inhabitants of Dinnington, and the surrounding neighbourhood.

Latest Income: £434,091
Areas of Operation: Rotherham
Status: Registered
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The Youth Sport UK Charitable Trust

Beneficiary group, Leisure

Support the education and development of young people through PE and sport Internationally.

Latest Income: £427,708
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Chipping Sodbury Town Lands Charity

Education, Leisure

TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL RELIEF FOR NEEDY PARISHIONERS OF SODBURY.TO AID PROMOTION OF EDUCATION TO PUPILSOF CHIPPING SODBURY COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL. TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION (INC. FURTHER EDUCATION) FOR PERSONS RESIDING IN THE PARISH OF SODBURY. TO PROVIDE/MAINTAIN FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION. TO PROMOTE CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR INHABITANTS OF SODBURY

Latest Income: £425,482
Areas of Operation: South Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Abbey Community Centre

Facilities, Leisure

Abbey Community Centre aims to improve the quality of life for local people by offering excellent services which provide a range of educational, recreational, cultural and social opportunities. We aim to work in consultation and partnership with the local community and statutory and voluntary agencies in developing our programme and responding to emerging need and new initiatives

Latest Income: £424,280
Areas of Operation: Brent
Status: Registered
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Westminster School Scholarship And Bursary Fund

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education, Leisure

Westminster School educates children from 7 through to 18 and aims widen access as much as possible. It also aims to provide excellence in sporting and extra-curricular activities, notably artistic, musical and social skills. The aim of this charity is to fund scholarships and bursaries for pupils attending the School. This fund is a restricted fund for this purpose.

Latest Income: £414,000
Areas of Operation: City Of Westminster
Status: Registered
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Welsh Church Act Fund Within The Areas Of Rhondda Cynon Taff, Bridgend And Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Councils

Charitable activities, Leisure, Religion

gives grants to organisations,principally church based but also hobbies,cultural,medical and educational grants

Latest Income: £411,733
Areas of Operation: Bridgend
Status: Registered
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Laburnum Boat Club

Beneficiary group, Education, Leisure

Canoeing, youth club, inclusion club, adult club, schools canoeing, narrowboatnhg

Latest Income: £410,666
Areas of Operation: Hackney
Status: Registered
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Calne Community Transport

Beneficiary group, Leisure, Social welfare

Transport for the disabled, frail, elderly, other groups for Social Welfare and recreational purposes including social inclusion to combat loneliness, charitable groups, groups with a common interest and those who are unable to use other forms of transport.

Latest Income: £409,879
Areas of Operation: Wiltshire
Status: Registered
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Rhayader Leisure Centre

Leisure

Rhayader leisure centre provides opportunities for people of all ages to take part in social, sporting, training, arts and cultural activities through organising classes and providing facilities suitable for purpose.

Latest Income: £409,598
Areas of Operation: Wales
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many leisure charities are there in the UK?

There are 7,074 registered leisure charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the 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 leisure charities?

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 leisure charities?

Across all 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 leisure charities?

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.