Scole Community Centre and Playing Field

Analysis

Scole Community Centre and Playing Field is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Norfolk. It was registered in November 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover amateur sport and recreation, 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, Scole Community Centre and Playing Field reported income of £22k and spending of £23k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £17k to £22k (+33%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 131%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Scole Community Centre and Playing Field sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% 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 Friends of the Mead ( Fom ) (£22k), The Charlotte Pratt Memorial Hall (£22k) and Hampden Park Community Association CIO (£22k).

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.