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Thornbury Lions Club CIO

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 1178598BristolChildren and youth development
Income£63k2025-06-30
Spending£65ksame year
Spent / received103%5-year average
Size in its cause84th pctChildren and youth development
Registered2018CIO
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Thornbury Lions Club CIO is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in June 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Thornbury Lions Club CIO reported income of £63k and spending of £65k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £31k to £63k (+103%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Thornbury Lions Club CIO sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% 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 The St Mary's Parent-Teacher Association (£63k), Rotary Club of Pangbourne Charitable Trust (£63k) and Cheshire Search and Rescue (£63k).

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.

Income and spending

£0£16k£32k£49k£65k2021 Income: £31,2982021 Spending: £37,45520212022 Income: £46,1462022 Spending: £36,45520222023 Income: £51,1072023 Spending: £59,17320232024 Income: £61,5512024 Spending: £64,19120242025 Income: £63,4262025 Spending: £64,7142025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

The charity serves the local community, and those internationally. It works with the elderly, disable/disadvantaged and benefits the area around Thornbury, and makes grants to some national and international appeals to relieve poverty, respond to disaster relief, and to help people with disabilities e.g. loss of sight, thus extending the public benefit overseas..

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The St Mary's Parent-Teacher AssociationBeckenham£63k
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Cheshire Search and RescueCheshire£63k
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