The Peter Ashley Activity Centres

Analysis

The Peter Ashley Activity Centres is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Portsmouth. It was registered in July 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, accommodation/housing and amateur sport, which this site groups under housing and shelter. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Peter Ashley Activity Centres reported income of £1.4m and spending of £1.4m, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £549k to £1.4m (+146%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 82%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 2,324 England and Wales charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, The Peter Ashley Activity Centres sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Merchant Seamen's War Memorial Society (Incorporated) (£1.4m), The Sheppard Trust (£1.4m) and Nightsafe Limited (£1.3m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 45%, donations and legacies 31% and trading 24%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.7%. Reserves of £136k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 28 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.