Ebchester Community Association

Analysis

Ebchester Community Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Consett. It was registered in September 1974, 52 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Ebchester Community Association reported income of £10k and spending of £13k, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £23k to £10k (-56%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Ebchester Community Association sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 31st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Elsdon Village Hall (£10k), 1st Bodicote Scout Group (£10k) and Castleford Unit 71 of the Sea Cadet Corps (£10k).

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.