Victoria Colliery and Knypersley Welfare Trust

Analysis

Victoria Colliery and Knypersley Welfare Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stoke-On-Trent. It was registered in May 1965, 61 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Victoria Colliery and Knypersley Welfare Trust reported income of £159k and spending of £162k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £98k to £159k (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Victoria Colliery and Knypersley Welfare Trust sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% 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 The Deans Senior Tea Club (£159k), Nephra Good Neighbours Charitable Incorporated Organisation (£159k) and The Rainbow Centre Morecambe (£159k).

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.