Bowsden Village Hall

Analysis

Bowsden Village Hall is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Berwick Upon Tweed. It was registered in January 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Bowsden Village Hall reported income of £15k and spending of £25k, spending 170% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £21k to £15k (-31%), an average of -8.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 89%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Bowsden Village Hall sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dogdyke Pumping Station Preservation Trust (£15k), Sandwell University of the Third Age (£15k) and British Association for Soviet, Slavonic and East European Studies (£15k).