The Hamstead Social Welfare Centre

Analysis

The Hamstead Social Welfare Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Great Barr. It was registered in June 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Hamstead Social Welfare Centre reported income of £36k and spending of £67k, spending 186% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £9,512 to £36k (+282%), an average of +40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 172%. Over the whole period it spent 208% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, The Hamstead Social Welfare Centre sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 148th Bristol (1st Stockwood) Scout Group (£36k), 3rd Hertford Scout Group (£36k) and Fifth Farnham (Bourne) Scout Group (£36k).

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.