St Marks Institute Trust

Analysis

St Marks Institute Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in December 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover amateur sport and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, St Marks Institute Trust reported income of £42k and spending of £86k, spending 206% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £83k to £42k (-50%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, St Marks Institute Trust sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Blaby and District Social Centre (£42k), Chudleigh Youth Centre Charitable Trust (£42k) and Wheathampstead U3a (£42k).

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.