Ability Sports and Social (North East)

Analysis

Ability Sports and Social (North East) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Gateshead. It was registered in March 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending July 2025, Ability Sports and Social (North East) reported income of £10k and spending of £10k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £310 to £10k (+3202%), an average of +140% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2022, when income rose by 15094%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Ability Sports and Social (North East) sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Corringham and Fobbing Essex Old Age Pensioners Charity Fund (£10k), Bembridge Friendship Circle (£10k) and Skegness Masonic Benevolent Fund (£10k).

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.