Watling Community Association

Analysis

Watling Community Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Edgware. It was registered in January 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05268484). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Watling Community Association reported income of £195k and spending of £166k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £241k to £195k (-19%), an average of -5.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Watling Community Association sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Leonard, Padiham. (£195k), Wealdstone Baptist Church (£195k) and Ditchling Streat and Westmeston PCC (£195k).