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Painters Forstal Community Association

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1180045FavershamAmateur sport and recreation
Income£52k2025-08-31
Spending£67ksame year
Spent / received18%5-year average
Size in its cause74th pctAmateur sport and recreation
Registered2018CIO
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Painters Forstal Community Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Faversham. It was registered in September 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and other charitable purposes, 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 other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Painters Forstal Community Association reported income of £52k and spending of £67k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £46k to £52k (+13%), an average of +3.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 788%. Over the whole period it spent 18% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Painters Forstal Community Association sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Welton Village Hall Trust (£52k), The Strawberry Line Society (£52k) and Seabrooke Rise Community Association (£52k).

Income and spending

£0£103k£206k£309k£412k2021 Income: £46,4032021 Spending: £65820212022 Income: £411,9042022 Spending: £2,88320222023 Income: £288,8172023 Spending: £22,32920232024 Income: £76,6202024 Spending: £65,65820242025 Income: £52,3392025 Spending: £67,3682025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Painters Forstal Community Association (PFCA) aims: to set up, provide and operate a community/village hall in the village of Painters Forstal in the parish of Ospringe, Kent; and, to organise and run events, activities or facilities of an educational, recreational, leisure-related, socially-enhancing, health-enhancing or similar nature.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Welton Village Hall TrustLincoln£52k
The Strawberry Line SocietyWinscombe£52k
Seabrooke Rise Community AssociationGrays£52k
Henlow/Clifton Scout GroupBedfordshire£52k