Reading and Recreation Rooms

Analysis

Reading and Recreation Rooms is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Southampton. It was registered in April 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Reading and Recreation Rooms reported income of £11k and spending of £8,858, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £16k to £11k (-33%), an average of -9.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 457%. Over the whole period it spent 125% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Reading and Recreation Rooms 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 33rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Preston School (£11k), Sywell Open Water Swimming (£11k) and Kendal Millennium Playing Fields (£11k).