Bamford with Thornhill Recreation Ground CIO

Analysis

Bamford with Thornhill Recreation Ground CIO is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Derbyshire. It was registered in October 2019, 7 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.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Bamford with Thornhill Recreation Ground CIO reported income of £17k and spending of £19k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £25k to £17k (-32%), an average of -9.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 89%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Bamford with Thornhill Recreation Ground CIO sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Halton School Association (£17k), Northcliffe Allotment Society (£17k) and 1st Broad Oak and Punnetts Town Scout Group (£17k).

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.