Leisure `LE`¶

Leisure is a tag in the UK-CAT classification of charities in the UK. It is part of the Leisure category.

30,149 charities have been tagged with this tag. This represents 14.84% of all charities.

Keywords to find charities¶

UK-CAT categories are applied to charities based on a set of keywords, in the form of a regular expression.

The regular expression used to find charities in this tag is:

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Distribution by size of charity¶

Income band	Charities with tag	Percent of all charities
Under £10k	9,764	13.74%
£10k - £100k	11,721	16.69%
£100k - £250k	2,971	13.33%
£250k - £500k	1,448	13.28%
£500k - £1m	815	11.87%
£1m - £10m	968	10.63%
Over £10m	187	8.38%
Total	27,874	14.47%

Distribution by charity regulator¶

Regulator	Charities with tag	Percent of all charities
ccew	22,192	12.97%
oscr	6,835	27.58%
ccni	1,122	15.58%
Total	30,149	14.84%

Ten largest charities (by income)¶

Name	Latest income
THE ERIC WRIGHT CHARITABLE TRUST [Charity number: 1002966] The Trust is a general purpose charity with a particular interest in supporting young people and the elderly in the North West of England	£308,912,000
ROYAL MENCAP SOCIETY [Charity number: 222377] Provide support and advice services for people with a learning disabilty including care and support, advocacy, housing, leisure and employment. We work to improve services, challenge prejudice and directly support people to live their lives as they choose. We offer support through our website, printed resources and helpline. Our regional advisers offer direct support by phone, email and in person.	£244,357,000
Culture and Sport Glasgow [Charity number: SC037844] 4.1 To advance the arts, heritage, culture and science. 4.2 To advance education. 4.3 To advance public participation in sport which involves physical skill and exertion. 4.4 To advance health. 4.5 To promote civic responsibility, volunteering, the voluntary sector and/or the effectiveness or efficiency of charities. 4.6 To provide recreational facilities, and organise recreational activities, where such facilities/activities are available to members of the public at large with the object of improving their conditions of life. 4.7 To relieve those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. 4.8 To advance citizenship and community development (including urban regeneration) by harnessing the cultural and leisure assets of Glasgow, the contribution made by activities in furtherance of paragraphs 4.1 to 4.7, and a range of other measures, to increase vibrancy and promote positive perceptions of Glasgow as a place to work, live, study play, visit and invest - in a common effort with other public, private and third sector partners to address issues of social, economic and physical deprivation across the City of Glasgow, including health inequalities, social exclusion and unemployment. 4.9 To advance such similar charitable purposes as the directors may consider appropriate from time to time. through the provision of services (including those entrusted to it by Glasgow City Council) which contribute to advancing well-being (primarily the wellbeing of residents of Glasgow) including (i) the operation, management and development of museums, art galleries and other facilities which provide public access to collections of works of art, antiquities and objects of scientific interest. (ii) the development and delivery of arts and cultural activities and events, artistic programmes, scientific/research programmes and educational projects. (iii) the operation, management and development of libraries and the provision of library and archive services. (iv) the operation, management and development of indoor and outdoor sports facilities (including arrangements to facilitate access to such facilities by those on lower incomes or having special needs and to encourage wider participation in healthy exercise).(maximum text reached, further full information can be obtained directly from the Charity)	£151,659,000
THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION [Charity number: 1079309] The Charity's current and on-going activities are:to put in place a new generation of modern facilities in parks, local leagues and schools;to provide capital/revenue support to increase participation in grass roots football, andto strenghten the links between football and the community and to harness its potential as a force for good in society.	£150,067,000
The Royal Horticultural Society [Charity number: SC038262] The objects of the Society are the encouragement and improvement of the science, art and practice of horticulture in all its branches.	£124,804,000
THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY [Charity number: 222879] The RHS was founded in 1804 to inspire passion and excellence in horticulture. We want to enrich everyone's life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place. To achieve our aim we undertake scientific research; provide education, training and horticultural advice; support community horticulture projects; and share our renowned gardens and shows with the public.	£124,804,000
Richmond Fellowship Scotland Ltd [Charity number: SC021621] The objects of the Society are the relief of those who are vulnerable and in need of support, care, advice or other assistance due to reasons of their vulnerability. The Society will or may do this through: - The advancement of health and well being. - The advancement of education. - The advancement of citizenship or community development. - The provision of recreational facilities or the organisation of recreational activities, with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. - The relief of those in need. This may be by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage and any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes. - The prevention or relief of povert	£117,729,000
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust [Charity number: SC039263] 2 Objects 2.1 The Objects of the Charity are the promotion of health and the protection of the natural environment, both in the UK and overseas, for the public benefit through the development in the community of, and the provision of safe routes, paths and facilities for, cycling, walking and other forms of low energy transport and to undertake and carry on projects and activities of a charitable nature which will assist in promoting healthy recreation, the protection of the environment and the conservation of energy resources.	£110,673,000
NURSING AND MIDWIFERY COUNCIL [Charity number: 1091434] The NMC is the independent regulator for nurses and midwives in the UK. Our primary purpose is to protect patients and the public through effective and proportionate regulation of nurses and midwives. We set and promote standards of education and practice, maintain a register of those who meet these standards, and take action when a nurse's or midwife's fitness to practise is called into question.	£108,669,000
Edinburgh Merchant Company Education Board [Charity number: SC009747] The Education Board?s Charitable Purposes are: (a) the advancement of education, particularly the education and advancement of children and young people. (b) the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture and science. (c) the advancement of public participation in sport. (d) the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. and (e) the advancement of citizenship or community development.	£84,994,162

Ten random charities¶

Name	Latest income
STAMFORD TOWN CRICKET CLUB [Charity number: 1214315] THE MAIN PURPOSES OF THE CLUB ARE TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR AND TO PROMOTE PARTICIPATION IN THE AMATEUR SPORT OF CRICKET.
Fan Syndicate [Charity number: SC051733] The provision and organisation of recreational activities
HOLLESLEY VILLAGE HALL CIO [Charity number: 1197877] To run a village hall for the use of inhabitants of Hollesley and the neighbourhood without distinction of sex or of political, religious or other opinions and in particular for meetings, lectures and classes and for other forms of recreation and leisure-time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants.	£27,820
COLLEGE OF THE THIRD AGE (NEWCASTLE) [Charity number: 1039363] A. To advance the education of the public in particular the education of people aged 50+ who are not in full time employment in the Newcastle Under Lyme & surrounding area. B. To improve the conditions of life for the over 50's in the above area in the interests of their social welfare by providing facilities for leisure & recreational activities.	£13,081
Fife Nepalese Community (SCIO) [Charity number: SC049687] The organisation's purposes, to be applied principally (but not exclusively) in the Dunfermline catchment area with the postcode sector KY11, KY12 as defined from time to time by Fife Council, and wider Fife area, are the promotion of culture, heritage, equality and diversity through the promotion of, and by encouraging participation in, better integration and activities for Nepalese residents and host communities in Fife and elsewhere in Scotland. The promotion of or provision of culture, heritage, sporting and recreation activities designed to develop better social wellbeing to enhance the Nepalese communities and other socially disadvantaged individuals in Fife and elsewhere in Scotland, the UK and abroad. The relief of poverty principally among the Nepalese communities in Fife and elsewhere to provide or assist in the provision of improving the quality of life in such communities in Fife and elsewhere in with particular emphasis in health, social and integration issues.	£1,072
THE BUGLE WVS DARBY AND JOAN CLUB [Charity number: 234941] Summertime coach trips every month, winter fortnightly meetings in the village hall where there is various speakers and entertainment, birthday and Christmas parties.	£5,178
CLAREMONT FIRST STEP COMMUNITY CENTRE [Charity number: 1088988] Monday & Tuesday Social Club Gentle Exercise, Friday Luncheon Club Samba Band, Free Internet Use, ITC Classes, Pilates, Social Days Out, Holidays Away, Advice & Guidance on benefits, incl. Universal Credit Wednesday club for people with Learning Difficulties and Complex Needs incl. Mental Health Issues, Children's Projects, Homelessness Project,Peoples Health Club Local Conversation Project	£188,283
Benmore And Kilmun Community Development Trust [Charity number: SC034884] a) to manage community land and associated assets for the benefit of the Community and the public in general as an important part of the protection and sustainable development of Scotland's natural environment. b) to provide, in the interests of social welfare, facilities for recreation and other leisure time activity available to the public at large within the Community - with a view to improving their conditions of life. c) to preserve, restore and improve the environment in the Community through the provision , maintenance and lor improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and townscape regeneration projects, and in doing so, to seek wherever appropriate ( but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefit so arising clearly outweighs any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners) to carry out works of reclamation, remediation, restoration and other operations to facilitate the use for those purposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previous use. d) To promote for public benefit the preservation (whether wholly or in part) of buildings and other structures of historic and/or architectural significance located within the Community. e) to relieve the needs of people who are elderly or who are otherwise in need of care within the Community. t) to advance education and to promote training programmes and opportunities for the benefit of the residents of the Community particularly among young people and the unemployed. g) to relieve poverty among the residents of the Community h) to promote, establish and operate other schemes of a similar charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Community i) all the above purposes are to be exercised following the principles of sustainable development (where sustainable development means development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs)	£9,909
FELINDRE VILLAGE HALL [Charity number: 524458] The charity is responsible for managing the village hall to provide a place for recreation, educational or/and social purposes for the local communities of Felindre, Beguildy and the surrounding rural hamlets and villages. It provides a valuable resource to the local community suporting Teme Valley YFC, Felindre W.I, Beguildy Community Council, Keep Fit Club, Art club and short mat bowls club.	£28,615
PENZANCE AND NEWLYN PILOT GIG CLUB [Charity number: 1212207] TO PROMOTE FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE AMATEUR SPORT OF CORNISH PILOT GIG ROWING IN PENZANCE AND NEWLYN AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL.