Jesmond Community Leisure

Analysis

Jesmond Community Leisure is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in April 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science, amateur sport and recreation, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02645699). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Jesmond Community Leisure reported income of £1.1m and spending of £937k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £792k to £1.1m (+35%), an average of +7.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Jesmond Community Leisure sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fuel Productions Ltd (£1.1m), Theatre Peckham (£1.1m) and The Print Room Theatre (£1.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 91%, investments 2.9% and trading 2.5%. Charitable activities took 98% of spending and raising funds 1.8%. Reserves of £299k would cover about 4 months of spending at that rate. It employed 8 people.