The Sheffield Bluecoat and Mount Pleasant Educational Foundation

Analysis

The Sheffield Bluecoat and Mount Pleasant Educational Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sheffield. It was registered in January 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Sheffield Bluecoat and Mount Pleasant Educational Foundation reported income of £83k and spending of £111k, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £68k to £83k (+22%), an average of +5.2% a year. Over the whole period it spent 109% 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 Sheffield Bluecoat and Mount Pleasant Educational Foundation sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wakefield District Scout Council (£83k), Otley Sailing Club (£83k) and Greenwich Tritons (£83k).

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.