Great Chart Playing Fields Association

Analysis

Great Chart Playing Fields Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ashford. It was registered in September 1983, 43 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 March 2025, Great Chart Playing Fields Association reported income of £14k and spending of £26k, spending 182% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £26k to £14k (-46%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Great Chart Playing Fields Association sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wyke Regis Community and Sports Association (£14k), Carhampton Recreation Ground (£14k) and 1st Halesworth Scout Group (£14k).

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.