RYCROFT LEISURE

Registered charity 1157830 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for football, cricket, rugby, bowls, badminton, tennis, skate boarding and a fitness gym.To help young people from Havercroft and Ryhill area develop as individuals and members of society.Provision of facilities for recreation and other leisure time activities for the public at large in the interests of social welfare.

Objects

(1) THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE(A) THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF FOOTBALL , CRICKET, RUGBY, BOWLS, BADMINTON, TENNIS, SKATEBOARDING AND A FITNESS GYM; (B) TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE FROM RYHILL AND HAVERCROFT AND SURROUNDING AREAS, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY; (C) TO PROMOTE THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE N THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£340k
Latest spending
£353k
Registered
2014
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £13,315 for the year, with total funds decreasing from £448,360 to £435,045. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Free reserves excluding fixed assets stood at £271,742, which the trustees aim to maintain between three and six months of budgeted expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: between 3 and 6 months of budgeted expenditure (reserves figure: £272k)
“We aim to maintain the minimum reserves of between 3 and 6 months of budgeted expenditure in order to enable the smooth running of the charity and to allow for an orderly winding up should the charity need to cease.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Rycroft Trading CIC
“The CIO is parent company to Rycroft Trading CIC , a company limited by guarantee, company number 09158231.” — page 13
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 20
  • Government income: £30,228 — grants £30,228 (2); 9% of the £339,748 total gross income on the same return
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 2
  • Government income: £37,462 — grants £37,462 (3); 11% of the £344,826 total gross income on the same return
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 2
  • Government income: £16,723 — grants £16,723 (2); 5% of the £347,205 total gross income on the same return
  • Has a trading subsidiary
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: City Of Wakefield

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£340k£353k
31/03/2024£345k£338k
31/03/2023£347k£228k
31/03/2022£248k£235k
31/03/2021£365k£237k

Common questions

Is RYCROFT LEISURE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £13,315 for the year, with total funds decreasing from £448,360 to £435,045. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Free reserves excluding fixed assets stood at £271,742, which the trustees aim to maintain between three and six months of budgeted expenditure. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England17/12/2025£2kSWS Girls Football Club
The National Lottery Community Fund16/09/2022£248kRycroft Youth and Community Project Continuation
UK government29/09/2020£45kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
UK government22/09/2020£8kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund10/01/2019£5kKeeping engaged
The National Lottery Community Fund18/05/2016£281kYouth Aspire

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Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
RYCROFT LEISURE£340k—0unclear—no doubt
RUSTON SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB FY2025£145k—0unclear—no doubt
RUBERY COMMUNITY AND LEISURE CENTRE LTD FY2025£29k—0above—no doubt
SPORT IN DESFORD FY2025£61k—0unclear—no doubt
DURHAM AREA YOUTH FY2026£257k—0unclear—no doubt
HEDWORTHFIELD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2026£272k—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.