Braunstone Adventure Playground

Analysis

Braunstone Adventure Playground is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leicester. It was registered in June 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05446827). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Braunstone Adventure Playground reported income of £258k and spending of £145k, leaving 44% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £185k to £258k (+39%), an average of +8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 98%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Braunstone Adventure Playground sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Bushey (£258k), Anjuman-E-Jaafriah (£258k) and New River Church (£258k).