Darby and Joan Building Trust Cottingham

Analysis

Darby and Joan Building Trust Cottingham is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cottingham. It was registered in January 2022, 4 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, amateur sport and 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, provides services and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending May 2025, Darby and Joan Building Trust Cottingham reported income of £56k and spending of £58k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from May 2023 to May 2025, income grew from £36k to £56k (+53%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2024, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Darby and Joan Building Trust Cottingham sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% 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 Knebworth Park Cricket Club (£56k), The Lawrance Park Recreation Ground and Community Association (£56k) and 1st Tadworth Sea Scouts Group (£56k).

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.