Alderholt Recreation Association

Analysis

Alderholt Recreation Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in November 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover amateur sport and recreation, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Alderholt Recreation Association reported income of £13k and spending of £14k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £7,945 to £13k (+59%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 43%. 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, Alderholt Recreation Association sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sheerness Youth (£13k), Friends of Kettlewell School (£13k) and 5th Marchwood Scout Group (£13k).

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.