Bath Cricket Club

Analysis

Bath Cricket Club is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bath. It was registered in November 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04677231). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Bath Cricket Club reported income of £825k and spending of £885k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £3.4m to £825k (-76%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 80%. Over the whole period it spent 59% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Bath Cricket Club sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Ulysses Trust (£824k), The Nucleo Project (£831k) and Bridlington Club for Young People (£823k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from trading 76%, charitable activities 9.4%, investments 7.3% and donations and legacies 5.4%. Charitable activities took 53% of spending and raising funds 39%. Reserves of £4.0m would cover about 50 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.