Boldon Community Centre

Analysis

Boldon Community Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Boldon Colliery. It was registered in August 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability and amateur sport, which this site groups under disability. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Boldon Community Centre reported income of £575k and spending of £543k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £119k to £575k (+385%), an average of +48% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 214%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Boldon Community Centre sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bradbury Fields Services for Blind and Partially Sighted People (£575k), The Yorkshire Cricket Foundation (£575k) and Hi Kent (£574k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 83% and trading 16%. Charitable activities took 79% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. It employed 26 people.