Gillingham and Shaftesbury Young Farmers Club

Analysis

Gillingham and Shaftesbury Young Farmers Club is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorset. It was registered in January 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, amateur sport and animals, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides human resources.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Gillingham and Shaftesbury Young Farmers Club reported income of £18k and spending of £15k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £514 to £18k (+3482%), an average of +145% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 550%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Gillingham and Shaftesbury Young Farmers Club sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cotes and Standon Community Centre Village Hall (£18k), Penton Recreational Centre (£18k) and Blandford Young Farmers' Club (£18k).