Riding Lights

Analysis

Riding Lights is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in York. It was registered in June 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03573945). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Riding Lights reported income of £455k and spending of £483k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £321k to £455k (+42%), an average of +9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Riding Lights sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South West Tyneside Methodist Circuit (£455k), Woodgreen Evangelical Church (£456k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Peter & St Paul, Moulton (£455k).

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.