The South Park Community Trust

Analysis

The South Park Community Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in July 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space, provides services and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending July 2025, The South Park Community Trust reported income of £23k and spending of £96k, spending 425% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income fell from £32k to £23k (-29%), an average of -8.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2023, when income rose by 635%. Over the whole period it spent 677% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The South Park Community Trust sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Branston Reading Rooms and Mechanics Institute (Known Locally As Branston Parish Room) (£23k), Village Hall Brantham (£23k) and Friends of Hope for Africa Missions (£23k).

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.