The Mersea Island Community Association

Analysis

The Mersea Island Community Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Essex. It was registered in August 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation, 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 and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Mersea Island Community Association reported income of £221k and spending of £241k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £133k to £221k (+66%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, The Mersea Island Community Association sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Abbeydale Community Association (£220k), 11th (Royal School of Signals) Signal Regiment and Blandford Garrison Regimental Institute Service Fund (£221k) and Sawbridgeworth Memorial Hall (£220k).