PLAYING FIELDS ASSOCIATION BEEFORD

Registered charity 523220 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PLAYING FIELDS AND COMMUNITY CENTRE BEEFORD

lOOKS AFTER APPROXIMATELY 10 ACRES OF LAND WHICH IS SPLIT INTO 4 SECTIONS, 3 ARE USED BY A BOWLS CLUB, CRICKET CLUB AND TENNIS CLUB, THE OTHER IS CURRENTLY UNUSED AND MAINTAINED AND CUT BY AN OUTSIDE CONTRACTOR.

Objects

COMMUNITY CENTRE AND PLAYING FIELDS.

Area of benefit: PARISH OF BEEFORD AND ITS IMMEDIATE VICINITY

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

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

Latest income

£115k

Latest spending

£104k

Registered

1963

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held free reserves of £11,634.23 at the end of the financial year. Total income was £115,431.69, with total expenditure amounting to £103,797.46. The trustees confirmed that the audit report is a true account of the finances for 2025.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

Clifford Hollingsworth
David Andrew Young
GORDON ANTHONY KIRK
STEPHEN HARRISON

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£115k	£104k
31/12/2024	£29k	£6k
31/12/2023	£16k	£3k
31/12/2022	£34k	£23k
31/12/2021	£11k	£4k

Common questions

Is PLAYING FIELDS ASSOCIATION BEEFORD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held free reserves of £11,634.23 at the end of the financial year. Total income was £115,431.69, with total expenditure amounting to £103,797.46. The trustees confirmed that the audit report is a true account of the finances for 2025. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	08/04/2022	£2k	Queens Platinum Jubilee

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
The Patricia Routledge Foundation	1	£10k
FRIARSGATE TRUST	1	£7k
THE HUDSON FOUNDATION	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RUFFORTH PLAYING FIELDS ASSOCIATION.

RUFFORTH PLAYING FIELDS ASSOCIATION income £40k
GILMORTON COMMUNITY PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION income £54k
WITCHFORD PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION income £182k
CUDDINGTON PLAYING FIELDS ASSOCIATION income £43k
LAKENHEATH PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION income £159k
GOREFIELD PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION income £100k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
PLAYING FIELDS ASSOCIATION BEEFORD	£115k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
RUFFORTH PLAYING FIELDS ASSOCIATION FY2026	£40k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
GILMORTON COMMUNITY PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION FY2025	£54k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
WITCHFORD PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION FY2025	£182k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CUDDINGTON PLAYING FIELDS ASSOCIATION FY2025	£43k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
LAKENHEATH PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION FY2025	£159k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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