Backworth Miners Welfare

Analysis

Backworth Miners Welfare is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Backworth. It was registered in May 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Backworth Miners Welfare reported income of £619k and spending of £609k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £449k to £619k (+38%), an average of +8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Backworth Miners Welfare sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% 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 Barrie Wells Trust (£617k), Rackets Cubed (£620k) and Mansfield Town Community Trust Ltd (£615k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 49%, trading 27% and donations and legacies 23%. Charitable activities took 68% of spending and raising funds 24%. Reserves of £385k would cover about 7 months of spending at that rate. It employed 12 people.