Yellow Submarine Holidays

Analysis

Yellow Submarine Holidays is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in July 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability and amateur sport, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06619694). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Yellow Submarine Holidays reported income of £1.2m and spending of £1.2m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £805k to £1.2m (+48%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2025, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Yellow Submarine Holidays sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include BF Adventure (£1.2m), Foundation for Conductive Education (£1.2m) and Northeast Disabilities Resource Centre (N.d.r.c.) (£1.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 77% and donations and legacies 23%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.7%. Reserves of £246k would cover about 3 months of spending at that rate. It employed 47 people.