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Leisure Charities

Discover 18,538 Leisure charities. Use the search below to filter within these results.

18,538
Charities
£8,616,316,045
Total Income
£339,613
Avg Income
85.4%
Program Ratio

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

Sandwell Leisure Trust

Leisure

SLT 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

Latest Income: £14,179,639
Areas of Operation: Sandwell
Status: Registered
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Circadian Trust

Leisure

Provision of sport, recreational and leisure facilities.Promotion and protection of good health.

Latest Income: £14,087,277
Areas of Operation: South Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Cardiff University Students' Union

Education, Leisure

Promoting 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.

Latest Income: £14,039,688
Areas of Operation: Cardiff
Status: Registered
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YMCA Fairthorne Group

Arts, Associations, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Education, Housing, Leisure

Working 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,

Latest Income: £13,821,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Pony Club

Animals, Beneficiary group, Leisure, Society

To 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.

Latest Income: £13,530,907
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Abbeycroft Leisure

Leisure

Management of leisure facilities and services in Suffolk.

Latest Income: £13,494,318
Areas of Operation: Suffolk
Status: Registered
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Badminton School Limited

Beneficiary group, Education, Leisure

Management and operation of a girls' senior and junior boarding and day school at its site in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.

Latest Income: £13,457,252
Areas of Operation: Bristol City
Status: Registered
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The Mike Gooley Trailfinders Charity

Beneficiary group, Leisure

Donations 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.

Latest Income: £13,226,035
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Fylde Coast YMCA

Associations, Beneficiary group, Housing, Leisure

Fylde 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

Latest Income: £13,203,000
Areas of Operation: Blackburn With Darwen
Status: Registered
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Sw9 Community Housing

Beneficiary group, Housing, Leisure, Social welfare

The 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.

Latest Income: £13,115,000
Areas of Operation: Lambeth
Status: Registered
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Ellesmere College Limited

Education, Leisure

The 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.

Latest Income: £12,837,590
Areas of Operation: Shropshire
Status: Registered
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Newcastle-Under-Lyme School

Education, Leisure

The 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.

Latest Income: £12,835,137
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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World Cancer Research Fund

Health, Leisure, Research

To 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.

Latest Income: £12,679,739
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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League Football Education

Leisure

The provision of quality, education, training and development for the benefit of individual apprentices

Latest Income: £12,676,365
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Grace Eyre Foundation

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Education, Housing, Leisure, Social welfare

The 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.

Latest Income: £12,673,646
Areas of Operation: Brighton And Hove
Status: Registered
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Style Acre

Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Health, Housing, Leisure

The 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.

Latest Income: £12,662,297
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Stockport Sports Trust

Leisure

Operating 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.

Latest Income: £12,640,986
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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YMCA Trinity Group

Associations, Beneficiary group, Housing, Leisure

The 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.

Latest Income: £12,535,269
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
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Staffordshire Winter Sports Club

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

Activities 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.

Latest Income: £12,527,952
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Kent Union

Education, Leisure

The 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.

Latest Income: £12,493,704
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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King's College London Students' Union

Education, Leisure

Providing 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

Latest Income: £12,490,083
Areas of Operation: City Of Westminster
Status: Registered
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Epping Forest

Facilities, Leisure

The 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.

Latest Income: £12,374,168
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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Coventry Sports Foundation

Leisure

Provision of a variety of sport, recreation, education and training activities within identified areas of under representation and neighbourhood renewal.

Latest Income: £12,223,973
Areas of Operation: Coventry City
Status: Registered
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Youth Sport Trust

Beneficiary group, Education, Leisure

Improving 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

Latest Income: £12,222,438
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The National Football Trust

Leisure

The 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.

Latest Income: £12,024,069
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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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.