Yorkshire Main Miners Welfare Scheme

Analysis

Yorkshire Main Miners Welfare Scheme is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in South Yorkshire. It was registered in August 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides human resources.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Yorkshire Main Miners Welfare Scheme reported income of £46k and spending of £74k, spending 159% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £73k to £46k (-36%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 138%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Yorkshire Main Miners Welfare Scheme sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Elstree and District Scouts (£46k), 1st Walton-On-Thames Scout Group (£46k) and King's Somborne Village Hall (£46k).

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.