Recreation Ground Charity

Analysis

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

In the financial year ending March 2025, Recreation Ground Charity reported income of £16k and spending of £57k, spending 349% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £2,095 to £16k (+675%), an average of +67% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 288%. Over the whole period it spent 469% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Recreation Ground Charity sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 45% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Otterton Recreation Ground (£16k), Blackmore End Playing Field (£16k) and Fontmell Magna Village Hall (£16k).

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.