Wheatley Playing Field Trust

Analysis

Wheatley Playing Field Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in July 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space, provides services and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Wheatley Playing Field Trust reported income of £54k and spending of £57k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income fell from £57k to £54k (-6.1%), an average of -1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Wheatley Playing Field Trust sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Smartys Day Nursery (Hitchin) (£54k), The Youngs Community Sports Trust (£54k) and Brentwood Community Football Alliance Youth League (£54k).

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.