Leisure Charities
Discover 18,538 Leisure charities. Use the search below to filter within these results.
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Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.
Sandwell Leisure Trust
LeisureSLT provides/assists in the provision of facilities and services for recreational, sporting or other leisure time occupations in the interests of social welfare.SLT operates 9 Leisure Centres under contract to Sandwell MBC
Circadian Trust
LeisureProvision of sport, recreational and leisure facilities.Promotion and protection of good health.
Cardiff University Students' Union
Education, LeisurePromoting the interests and welfare of students at Cardiff University during their study and representing, supporting and advising students.Being the recognised representative channel between students and Cardiff University and other bodies.Providing social, cultural, sporting and recreational activities and forums for discussions and debate for the personal development of its students.
YMCA Fairthorne Group
Arts, Associations, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Education, Housing, LeisureWorking with communities in Hampshire and IOW & providingAfter School Clubs, Holiday Play Schemes, Volunteering Projects, Early Years Childcare, Residential Group Facilities, Daycamps, National Young Carers Festival, Outreach Youth Projects,In school youth work, Holiday Playschemes for Children With Special Needs, Outdoor Education, Forest School, Supported Housing for Young People,
The Pony Club
Animals, Beneficiary group, Leisure, SocietyTo encourage young people to ride and to enjoy all kinds of sport connected with ponies and riding. To give instruction in riding and in all matters relating to ponies and riding and to provide education in looking after and taking proper care of animals. To promote the highest ideals of sportsmanship, citizenship and loyalty to create strength of character and self-discipline.
Abbeycroft Leisure
LeisureManagement of leisure facilities and services in Suffolk.
Badminton School Limited
Beneficiary group, Education, LeisureManagement and operation of a girls' senior and junior boarding and day school at its site in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.
The Mike Gooley Trailfinders Charity
Beneficiary group, LeisureDonations are confined to the benefit of citizens of Great Britain only. Medical research, sport and organised children activities, military veterans, and local community projects are favoured.
Fylde Coast YMCA
Associations, Beneficiary group, Housing, LeisureFylde Coast YMCA is an inclusive organisation providing quality services to the local community, which stimulates and challenges people, especially the young - empowering them to develop in mind, body and spirit.We develop a range of quality services for the local community with emphasis on Housing, Physical Activity, Outdoor Education and Young People
Sw9 Community Housing
Beneficiary group, Housing, Leisure, Social welfareThe charity provides for the benefit of the community in the Stockwell Park area, property management and maintenance services and associated amenities for persons in necessitous circumstances including the aged. The charity also provides activities seeking to prevent and/or relieve poverty and provides recreational and leisure time facilities with the object of improving conditions of life.
Ellesmere College Limited
Education, LeisureThe delivery of education to pupils ranging from 7 to 18 years of age. The school is open at other times for use by the local community, and the school has strong links with local sporting associations for the benefit of the local community.
Newcastle-Under-Lyme School
Education, LeisureThe School provides high quality educational and pastoral care to over 800pupils aged 3-18. It achieves outstanding results at A level, complemented by success in sporting and extra-curricular activities. Pupils invariably proceed to Higher Education. Means tested bursaries are awarded ensuring a balanced social mix within the School.
World Cancer Research Fund
Health, Leisure, ResearchTo raise awareness that the risk of cancer is reduced by healthy food and nutrition, physical activity and weight management.To fund cutting-edge research on how the foods we eat, the amount of physical activity we do and our body weight impact our cancer risk so that our diet and health recommendations for reducing the risk of cancer are based on current science.
League Football Education
LeisureThe provision of quality, education, training and development for the benefit of individual apprentices
The Grace Eyre Foundation
Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Education, Housing, Leisure, Social welfareThe charity works with and supports 650 people with learning disabilities and/or autism. The main activities are 1 - Choices supported living schemes & community support, 2 - housing, 3 - shared lives scheme and 4 - Active Lives, day time opportunities such as supported employment, travel buddy scheme, friendship groups, education, training , creative arts and sports and leisure.
Style Acre
Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Health, Housing, LeisureThe charity supports adults with learning disabilities and associated disabilities including autism, sensory impairment and mental health problems. We provide support to enable people to live in their own homes and also provide a Day Opportunities service and volunteering project to support people to access leisure, education and work.
Stockport Sports Trust
LeisureOperating a range of sports and leisure facilities across Stockport and elsewhere, from small community recreation centres to large multi use state of the art leisure centres. We currently manage a number of swimming pools, sports halls, and sports & fitness facilities including a large multi-use football, racquet sport and fitness training facility.
YMCA Trinity Group
Associations, Beneficiary group, Housing, LeisureThe YMCA works to enable young people to grow to their full potential by participating in a supportive and inclusive community through its housing, youth work, health and fitness and other programmes.The main group who benefit are those in the age range 8 to 28 through a variety ofprogrammes from short duration specialist interventions to supported housing offered over a number of years.
Staffordshire Winter Sports Club
Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Education, Leisure, Social welfareActivities includes programmes in the following areas; schools, disability, amateur sport, health, social inclusion, women and girls and volunteer programmes. Programmes, consist of three core activities - education, suitable physical activity and social inclusion.
Kent Union
Education, LeisureThe advancement of education of students at the University of Kent for the public benefit by; promoting their interests and welfare and representing, supporting and advising students: representing student's interests to the University; and providing social, cultural, sporting and recreational activities and forums for discussions and debate for the personal development of students.
King's College London Students' Union
Education, LeisureProviding sporting, social, cultural and recreational opportunities and facilities for students of King's College London;Advancing the welfare and physical and mental well being of students;Providing representation, advice and assistance to students on matters affecting their welfare and interests as students;Promoting and encouraging contact and co-operation between students
Epping Forest
Facilities, LeisureThe purpose of the Charity is the preservation of Epping Forest in perpetuity by the City of London Corporation as the Conservators of Epping Forest, as an Open Space for the recreation and enjoyment of the public.
Coventry Sports Foundation
LeisureProvision of a variety of sport, recreation, education and training activities within identified areas of under representation and neighbourhood renewal.
Youth Sport Trust
Beneficiary group, Education, LeisureImproving the quality of PE & school sportDeveloping incl. PE & school sport to engage the least activeModernising competitive school sport to offer more young people the opp to competeEnabling & empowering young people to lead & be role modelsMaximising the experiences of elite athletes via mentor training & deploymentSupporting the use of PE to impact on academic progress & acheivement
The National Football Trust
LeisureThe Charity's objects (Objects) are for the benefit of the public generally and, in particular, the inhabitantsof England to promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of association football and other sports capable of improving health. The Charity will lease sites and then contract an operator to manage the facilities.
Frequently asked questions about this sector
How many leisure charities are there in the UK?
There are 18,538 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 £8.6bn 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 85.4%. 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 £340k. 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.