Bishops Lydeard Village Hall and Playing Field

Analysis

Bishops Lydeard Village Hall and Playing Field is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Taunton. It was registered in February 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Bishops Lydeard Village Hall and Playing Field reported income of £93k and spending of £109k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £173k to £93k (-46%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Bishops Lydeard Village Hall and Playing Field sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include R. E. Chadwick Charitable Trust (£93k), E M S Abraham Charitable Trust (£94k) and The Van Mesdag Fund (£93k).

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.