Watcombe Community Association

Analysis

Watcombe Community Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Torquay. It was registered in June 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Watcombe Community Association reported income of £11k and spending of £18k, spending 168% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £15k to £11k (-28%), an average of -8.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income dropped by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 137% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Watcombe Community Association sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Faversham and District U3a (£11k), Christopher Mark Fenwick Charitable Trust (£11k) and Arthur Anderson Widows' Fund (£11k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.