Ashenground Community Centre

Analysis

Ashenground Community Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Haywards Heath. It was registered in September 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover 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 04413212). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Ashenground Community Centre reported income of £56k and spending of £76k, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £103k to £56k (-45%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 117% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Ashenground Community Centre sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% 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 De Hood Boxing Centre & Community Hub CIO (£56k), The Rugeley Educational Endowment (£56k) and Hazlemere Memorial Hall CIO (£56k).

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.