Barrow Community Basketball and Sports Association Limited

Analysis

Barrow Community Basketball and Sports Association Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cumbria. It was registered in July 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03461835). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Barrow Community Basketball and Sports Association Limited reported income of £55k and spending of £85k, spending 155% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £69k to £55k (-21%), an average of -5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 137% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Barrow Community Basketball and Sports Association Limited sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chapel Break Community Association (£55k), Crosby and District Scout Council (£55k) and Lutterworth Young Farmers Club (£55k).

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.