THE BARNET RECREATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 285974 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Donations to local community charities, including the development of youth rugby football.

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Latest income

£375k

Latest spending

£118k

Registered

1982

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts disclose a trading subsidiary, Barnet RT Limited, which reported a loss of £5,948 for the year. The charity transferred a plot of land to this subsidiary for £25,000, with all profits from the development to be transferred back to the charity. Total debtors increased from £76,082 in 2024 to £114,227 in 2025.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: The charity transferred a plot of land to its subsidiary, Barnet RT Limited, for £25,000. All profits from the subsidiary's development of the land are transferred back to the charity.

“A plot of land was transferred to Barnet RT Limited the subsidiary of the Barnet Recreational Trust for £25,000 during the year. The land will be developed by the subsidiary with all profits being transferred back to the charity.” — page 20

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2023)

Total income

£8.5m

Total spending

£356k

Cost of raising funds

£59k

Reserves (reported)

£8.6m

Employees

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

ADAM GILES DOMINIC DORAN
MR CHARLES BENNETT BAGGS
Martin George Pyrke
PETER CHARLES MOULTON
Robert Howell
William Osborn Boyes · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Barnet

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
05/04/2025	£375k	£118k
05/04/2024	£159k	£419k
05/04/2023	£8.5m	£356k
05/04/2022	£76k	£72k
05/04/2021	£98k	£35k

Common questions

Is THE BARNET RECREATIONAL TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts disclose a trading subsidiary, Barnet RT Limited, which reported a loss of £5,948 for the year. The charity transferred a plot of land to this subsidiary for £25,000, with all profits from the development to be transferred back to the charity. Total debtors increased from £76,082 in 2024 to £114,227 in 2025.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£32k
CRH CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£10k
THE JEANNINE VASSILIOU CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BURNTWOOD DRAGONS AND PHOENIX FC.

BURNTWOOD DRAGONS AND PHOENIX FC income £149k
THE ASHWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £201k
YESHIVAH L'ZEIRIM MANCHESTER CHARITY TRUST income £352k
THE BATES FOUNDATION income £137k
LORICA TRUST LIMITED income £1.1m
ACTIVE LUTON income £15.7m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE BARNET RECREATIONAL TRUST	£375k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BURNTWOOD DRAGONS AND PHOENIX FC FY2024	£149k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ASHWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026	£201k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
YESHIVAH L'ZEIRIM MANCHESTER CHARITY TRUST FY2025	£352k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE BATES FOUNDATION FY2025	£137k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
LORICA TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£1.1m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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