The English Eight Club

Analysis

The English Eight Club is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Surrey. It was registered in January 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The English Eight Club reported income of £37k and spending of £35k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £40k to £37k (-7.5%), an average of -1.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 103%. Over the whole period it spent 88% 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 English Eight Club sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Moulton Community Association - (£37k), King George V Memorial Hall (£37k) and Sheffield Federation for School Sports (£37k).