The Five Parks, Bournemouth I E Kings, Queens, Meyrick and Redhill Parks and Seafield Gardens

Analysis

The Five Parks, Bournemouth I E Kings, Queens, Meyrick and Redhill Parks and Seafield Gardens is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bournemouth. It was registered in July 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Five Parks, Bournemouth I E Kings, Queens, Meyrick and Redhill Parks and Seafield Gardens reported income of £988k and spending of £1.2m, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £809k to £988k (+22%), an average of +5.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 116% 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 Five Parks, Bournemouth I E Kings, Queens, Meyrick and Redhill Parks and Seafield Gardens sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cricklade and District Community Association (£986k), Nice Time (£990k) and Epsom Sports Club (£984k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 52%, donations and legacies 46% and trading 2.2%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%.

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.