Watershed Workshops Ltd

Analysis

Watershed Workshops Ltd is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Huddersfield. It was registered in November 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04433978). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space, provides services and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Watershed Workshops Ltd reported income of £70k and spending of £92k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £32k to £70k (+117%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 125%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Watershed Workshops Ltd sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Little1stop (£70k), Northwood Past Times (£70k) and From Bristol with Love (£70k).

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.