Vanbrugh Community Association

Analysis

Vanbrugh Community Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04149483). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Vanbrugh Community Association reported income of £493k and spending of £501k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £514k to £493k (-4.1%), an average of -1.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 94% 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, Vanbrugh Community Association 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 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bishopsland Educational Trust (£493k), The Ashmolean Museum Endowment Trust (£494k) and Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (£493k).

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.