Houghton Road Centre

Analysis

Houghton Road Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in South Yorkshire. It was registered in January 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, amateur sport and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04190211). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Houghton Road Centre reported income of £21k and spending of £32k, spending 148% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £11k to £21k (+93%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Houghton Road Centre sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grindleford Playing Field Trust (£21k), Woodchurch Memorial Hall Trust (£21k) and Village Hall (£21k).