Hounsdown Community Association

Analysis

Hounsdown Community Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Southampton. It was registered in May 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science, amateur sport and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending May 2025, Hounsdown Community Association reported income of £14k and spending of £18k, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2021 to May 2025, income fell from £24k to £14k (-42%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2023, when income dropped by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Hounsdown Community Association 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 37th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Okehampton College Parent Teacher Friends Association (£14k), Little Waltham War Memorial Hall (£14k) and Purbeck Arts Choir (£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.