The Whipton Institute

Analysis

The Whipton Institute is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Exeter. It was registered in July 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Whipton Institute reported income of £26k and spending of £27k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £13k to £26k (+99%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 135%. Over the whole period it spent 119% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, The Whipton Institute sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Arun Youth Aqua Centre (£26k), 28th Oxford (Littlemore) Scout Group (£26k) and Brent Knoll Parish Hall (£26k).

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.