Pickering Recreation Ground

Analysis

Pickering Recreation Ground is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Pickering. It was registered in June 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, amateur sport and recreation, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides buildings/facilities/open space and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Pickering Recreation Ground reported income of £15k and spending of £11k, leaving 30% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £10k to £15k (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 4310%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Pickering Recreation Ground sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fd-Uk (£15k), Caleb Andrew Meakins Foundation (£15k) and Pershore Rotary Club Trust Fund (£15k).