The Margam Youth Activities Leisure Centre

Analysis

The Margam Youth Activities Leisure Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Port Talbot. It was registered in July 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides human resources.

In the financial year ending July 2025, The Margam Youth Activities Leisure Centre reported income of £167k and spending of £180k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £47k to £167k (+252%), an average of +37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2023, when income rose by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Margam Youth Activities Leisure Centre sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Park Centre Burgess Hill (£167k), Baal Hamoin (£167k) and The Archie Sherman Cardiff Foundation (£167k).

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.