St Mary's (Bramall Lane) Community Centre

Analysis

St Mary's (Bramall Lane) Community Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sheffield. It was registered in October 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, amateur sport and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04317500). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, St Mary's (Bramall Lane) Community Centre reported income of £507k and spending of £538k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £630k to £507k (-20%), an average of -5.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, St Mary's (Bramall Lane) Community Centre sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% 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 The Coastguard Association Charity (£507k), Smart Works Yorkshire (£507k) and Success Stories (£507k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from trading 51%, charitable activities 47% and investments 1.2%. Charitable activities took 96% of spending and raising funds 3.6%. Reserves of £166k would cover about 4 months of spending at that rate. It employed 20 people.

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.