Golcar United Community Playing Fields

Analysis

Golcar United Community Playing Fields is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Huddersfield. It was registered in September 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides other finance, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Golcar United Community Playing Fields reported income of £54k and spending of £32k, leaving 41% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £53k to £54k (+1.7%), an average of +0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 240%. Over the whole period it spent 63% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Golcar United Community Playing Fields 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 Weymouth Surf Life Saving Club (£54k), Hebburn Unit 176 of the Sea Cadet Corps (£54k) and Somerton Recreation Ground Trust (£54k).