Community Golf and Leisure Trust

Analysis

Community Golf and Leisure Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wokingham. It was registered in April 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 11542365). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Community Golf and Leisure Trust reported income of £1.4m and spending of £1.5m, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.2m to £1.4m (+13%), an average of +3.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Community Golf and Leisure Trust sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Sapphire Employability and Wellbeing Academy (£1.4m), Wembley National Stadium Trust (£1.4m) and Somerdale Pavilion Trust (£1.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 100%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. It employed 32 people.

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.