Basingstoke and Deane Community Leisure Trust

Analysis

Basingstoke and Deane Community Leisure Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in March 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05485349). It says it provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Basingstoke and Deane Community Leisure Trust reported income of £5.6m and spending of £5.6m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £2.8m to £5.6m (+95%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Basingstoke and Deane Community Leisure Trust sits at the 100th percentile: it is one of the largest 1% in its cause. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nene Park Trust (£5.5m), London School of Economics Students' Union (£5.9m) and Berkhampstead School (Cheltenham) Trust Limited (£5.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 93%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £92k would cover about 0 months of spending at that rate. It employed 193 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.