Garthorpe Sports and Community Centre

Analysis

Garthorpe Sports and Community Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Scunthorpe. It was registered in April 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, amateur sport and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Garthorpe Sports and Community Centre reported income of £105k and spending of £120k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £67k to £105k (+57%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 292%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Garthorpe Sports and Community Centre sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include L'amicale Andre Malraux (£105k), Wotton-Under-Edge Swimming Pool Limited (£105k) and Presteigne and Norton Community Support (£105k).

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.