Brighstone Reading Rooms & Social Club

Analysis

Brighstone Reading Rooms & Social Club is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Isle Of Wight. It was registered in September 1968, 58 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Brighstone Reading Rooms & Social Club reported income of £22k and spending of £19k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £1,915 to £22k (+1052%), an average of +84% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 196%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Brighstone Reading Rooms & Social Club sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Haxey Parish Combined Charity (£22k), Andy Sarsby Charity (£22k) and Meseret for Women (£22k).