Viking Centre & Youth Club Limited

Analysis

Viking Centre & Youth Club Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Merseyside. It was registered in March 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science, amateur sport and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04961783). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Viking Centre & Youth Club Limited reported income of £29k and spending of £37k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £20k to £29k (+41%), an average of +8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 74%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Viking Centre & Youth Club Limited sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Magma Poetry (£29k), Peterborough Operatic and Dramatic Society (£29k) and Coventry Artspace Limited (£29k).

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.