The Brooklands Centre

Analysis

The Brooklands Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newport Pagnell. It was registered in February 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06376240). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Brooklands Centre reported income of £98k and spending of £128k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £60k to £98k (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Brooklands Centre 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 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Gordon Bramah Charitable Settlement (£98k), Friendly Faces of Kent (£99k) and The Skipasund Foundation (£98k).

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.