Downagate Recreation and Community Association

Analysis

Downagate Recreation and Community Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cumbria. It was registered in September 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending July 2025, Downagate Recreation and Community Association reported income of £22k and spending of £22k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income fell from £31k to £22k (-29%), an average of -8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2023, when income dropped by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Downagate Recreation and Community Association sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ampfield Village Hall (£22k), Charlwood Parish Hall (£22k) and 2nd Streetly (20th Sutton Coldfield, 242nd Birmingham) Scout Group (£22k).