Royal Southern Yacht Club Trust

Analysis

Royal Southern Yacht Club Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Southampton. It was registered in April 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, amateur sport and recreation, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06156598). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Royal Southern Yacht Club Trust reported income of £61k and spending of £38k, leaving 38% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £63k to £61k (-2.0%), an average of -0.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 154%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Royal Southern Yacht Club Trust sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Needingworth Village Hall Trust (£61k), Almondsbury Parish Hall and Recreation Ground (£62k) and Cheltenham Junior Hockey Association (£61k).