Hastings and Rother Sports Trust

Analysis

Hastings and Rother Sports Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hastings. It was registered in November 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, Hastings and Rother Sports Trust reported income of £360k and spending of £566k, spending 157% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £189k to £360k (+90%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 275%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Hastings and Rother Sports Trust sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Richmond Bridge Club (£360k), Hutton Football Club (£361k) and University College Birmingham Students’ Union (The Guild of Students) (£360k).

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.