Amateur sport and recreation: charities in England and Wales

Overview

England and Wales has 36,114 registered charities working on amateur sport and recreation on the current register extract, of which 32,080 reported income in their latest return. Together they reported £10.49bn of income. The median charity took in £22k, while the largest tenth reported £305k or more, so a typical donation goes to a far smaller organisation than the household names at the top of this list.

Income is concentrated: the ten largest charities working on amateur sport and recreation account for 17% of the total. Across the whole group, 8,268 charities have a note from the register, such as overdue accounts or three years of spending above income, and those notes are shown on each charity's page.

25,115 of the charities with reported income (78%) took in under £100k a year. Pages for the 21,537 charities with several years of accounts include their full income history, a comparison with similar-sized peers and a breakdown of where the money comes from.