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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.

Stowmarket Operatic And Dramatic Society

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Leisure

To provide entertainment for the local community.To raise funds to assist other charities.To educate members, especially the youth section, in all aspects of stage craft.

Latest Income: £60,496
Areas of Operation: Suffolk
Status: Registered
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Otley Old Peoples Welfare Committee

Beneficiary group, Leisure

The charity provides a permanent building comprising a main hall, adjacent smaller meeting rooms, kitchen facilities an for older people to gather for social, recreational and culinary purposes. Access is open to all on a day to day basis.The building also has offices.

Latest Income: £60,430
Areas of Operation: Leeds City
Status: Registered
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Haddenham Social Centre Village Hall

Arts, Beneficiary group, Facilities, Leisure

To manage the village hall at Haddenham for the benefit of the local community.The premises continue to be used by a wide variety of community groups on a regular basis.They include :- Sports Clubs.Age Concern.Social Dancing.Folk music concerts.Quilters.Jazzercise.Roller Skating.Parish Council.Weight Watchers.Fremantle Trust.Blood Donors.Children`s Centre.Antiques Fairs.Horticultural Society.

Latest Income: £60,386
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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Padworth Village Hall

Animals, Associations, Beneficiary group, Childcare, Facilities, Leisure

To make it possible for a range of activities to take place for people of all ages and abilities who live in Padworth and the surrounding area. Activities in the hall include :- mother and baby/child groups, Women's Institute, physical fitness, and self-help groups. Outdoor activities consist of a children's play area, a football pitch, dog training facilities, and pitches for leisure caravans

Latest Income: £60,367
Areas of Operation: West Berkshire
Status: Registered
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Newburn Sea Cadets

Arts, Associations, Education, Leisure

Training to the standards required by the Marine Society and Sea cadets. This includes boatwork, seamanship, map reading and navigation skills and all crafts and sports relevant to naval cadets. On-water boat training, shore based camps and training voyages on offshore vessels. Much of the training gives National Governing Body qualifications as well as B Tech courses. Cadets are aged 10 to 18

Latest Income: £60,365
Areas of Operation: Newcastle Upon Tyne City
Status: Registered
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47th Coventry (st Albans) Scout Group

Associations, Beneficiary group, Leisure

Scout Group. The training of children and young people to help make them better citizens when they grow up. This is by learning useful tasks. Outdoor activities with adventure. The chance to develop leadership skills.

Latest Income: £60,362
Areas of Operation: Coventry City
Status: Registered
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Bridlington Amateur Operatic And Dramatic Society

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education, Leisure

The society exists to present all types of entertainment which are suitable for audiences. Each year we present shows (5) and plays (3) together with shows we bring in to help with our finances. The theatre is used also by learning difficulty groups , local dance schools and our own youth group.( 35 children)

Latest Income: £60,315
Areas of Operation: East Riding Of Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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Hawkwell Village Hall

Arts, Childcare, Economic and community development, Education, Facilities, Leisure

Main Hall: Playschool, Dance, Urban Theatre School, Slimming World, Meetings & Shows, Fuchsia Society, Zumba Class, 1 U3A Group, Vulcan Trust, Martial Art, general public, Budgerigar/Foreign bird Society. Polling Station when required. Annex:Playschool, Jazz Record Society, South Essex Astronomy club, Budgerigar/Foreign bird Society.Car Park:Stambridge Pigeon club, Horticultural Society

Latest Income: £60,301
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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The Heston And District Community Association

Associations, Facilities, Leisure

25 activities take place on a regular basis during 7 days a week with the object of providing facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure; advancing education and improving the conditions of life for the inhabitants of Heston and district. To manage and maintain the Community Centre in furtherance of these objectives.

Latest Income: £60,233
Areas of Operation: Hounslow
Status: Registered
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New Hope Christian Ministries

Leisure, Religion

General Charitable PurposesEducation/TrainingRelief of PovertySport/recreation

Latest Income: £60,196
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Coxheath Residents' Village Hall

Facilities, Leisure

Village hall for hire for various sport, social, community and cultural activities.

Latest Income: £60,154
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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West Smethwick Park

Beneficiary group, Childcare, Facilities, Heritage, Leisure

The park contains a range of facilities for visitors and users including grass sport football and cricket (grass and sytnthtic). Multi Use Games Area, large children's Play Area, fishing pools, Youth Shelter, community pavilion, outdoor gym equipment, historical features, and network of footpaths for walking. The park friends group organises a range of activites/events throughout the year.

Latest Income: £60,014
Areas of Operation: Sandwell
Status: Registered
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Bridgemary Rowner And Woodcot Community Association

Associations, Facilities, Leisure

To provide inhabitants of the local area with facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time, with the object of improving the conditions of life of said inhabitants. To maintain and manage the Community Centre, co-operating with the local authority.

Latest Income: £59,907
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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The Dunnington And Grimston Playing Fields

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Facilities, Leisure

Provides sport and recreation facilities for all ages/genders/abilities in the community and surrounding areas. Sporting facilities as well as buildings are made available as well as making grants available to organisations. Sports are football, cricket, bowls, squash, tennis, table tennis, Indoor facilities for elderly e.g. chair aerobics and for young people e.g. dance. Large play park.

Latest Income: £59,895
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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Yeading Community Association

Associations, Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Leisure

Provision of space for local community activities to take place, catering to people of all ages. We offer Martial Art classes, Indoor Bowls, Glencoe Friendly over 50's Club and more.

Latest Income: £59,886
Areas of Operation: Hillingdon
Status: Registered
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Newton-Le-Willows Boys And Girls Club

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Leisure

The club offers youth group activities to seniors (12-18) and juniors (8-11 Years), these activities are educational and recreational. A group of volunteers and paid staff run these groups.WA12Radio station now belongs to Newton Boys and Girls Club. A community radio used by the local community for the community. We broadcast online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Latest Income: £59,766
Areas of Operation: Lancashire
Status: Registered
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North Of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team

Leisure, Saving of lives

The team was formed back in the 1970s as a North of Tyne Local Education Authority team in response to an increase in the number of incidents occurring on the hills and fells of Northumbria as outdoor activities such as climbing and hill walking grew in popularity. It became the North of Tyne Search & Rescue Team in the early 80s and more recently became the North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team

Latest Income: £59,737
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Backwell Playing Fields

Facilities, Leisure

The provision and maintenance of a recreation ground for the benefit of the inhabitants of the parish of Backwell, including the provision, or assistance towards the provision, on the said recreation ground or any part thereof, of facilities for the recreation and other leisure time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants.

Latest Income: £59,729
Areas of Operation: North Somerset
Status: Registered
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Lord Pirbright's Hall And Recreation Ground Commonly Known As Pirbright Village Hall

Facilities, Leisure

+Lord Pirbright's Hall is a village hall providing affordable space to hire for parish activities for clubs and societies and for social functions.

Latest Income: £59,611
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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The King George Vi Memorial Hall

Beneficiary group, Facilities, Leisure

The Charity runs a local village hall for the use of residents. Activities include sports activities , children clubs, bazaars and village events. The Charity rents out on a lease basis parts of the building to secure regular incomes. The hall may also be hired for private functions and meetings.

Latest Income: £59,559
Areas of Operation: Solihull
Status: Registered
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Ripon And District Scouts

Associations, Beneficiary group, Leisure

Our charity provides the human resources to give education and training , sport and recreation to children and young people.

Latest Income: £59,543
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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Treeton Miners' Welfare Institute

Leisure, Professions

It provides a welfare institute with facilities for physical recreation and other leisure time activities to improve the living conditions of the inhabitants of Treeton and the surrounding area. It possesses a bowling green plus a function/meeting room which is available for members and the local community.

Latest Income: £59,496
Areas of Operation: Rotherham
Status: Registered
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Berinsfield Community Association

Associations, Leisure

Provide sport, recreation and entertainment activities to the local community

Latest Income: £59,432
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Selby Community Trust

Economic and community development, Facilities, Leisure

The object of the Charity is, in the interests of social welfare, to improve the conditions of life for the inhabitants of the area of benefit without distinction of political, religious or other opinions by the provision and maintenance of a community centre, a recreation ground and an open space .

Latest Income: £59,421
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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Neuadd Y Pentre

Beneficiary group, Facilities, Leisure

Village hall is used by the local community for various activities (eg exercise classes, youth group, craft workshops, community event)s and hired out to local businesses or community groups.

Latest Income: £59,403
Areas of Operation: Gwynedd
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.