Yarm Recreation Ground Trust

Analysis

Yarm Recreation Ground Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Yarm. It was registered in August 1964, 62 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, Yarm Recreation Ground Trust reported income of £17k and spending of £24k, spending 142% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £24k to £17k (-30%), an average of -8.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Yarm Recreation Ground Trust sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Broughton Village Hall (£17k), New Houghton Community Hub (£17k) and Village Hall - Winterborne Whitechurch (£17k).

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.