Marehay Miners' Welfare Institute and Recreation Ground

Analysis

Marehay Miners' Welfare Institute and Recreation Ground is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ripley. It was registered in October 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, disability, amateur sport and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under disability. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Marehay Miners' Welfare Institute and Recreation Ground reported income of £99k and spending of £109k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £91k to £99k (+8.1%), an average of +2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Marehay Miners' Welfare Institute and Recreation Ground sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include World Without Orphans Europe (£99k), Naqshbandiyya Aslamiyya Spiritual Welfare Organisation (£99k) and Runcorn and District Foodbank (£99k).

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.