Leisure LE¶
Leisure is a tag in the UK-CAT classification of charities in the UK. It is part of the Leisure category.
30,471 charities have been tagged with this tag. This represents 14.95% 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 | 10,088 | 14.19% |
| £10k - £100k | 11,828 | 16.80% |
| £100k - £250k | 3,058 | 13.55% |
| £250k - £500k | 1,508 | 13.54% |
| £500k - £1m | 838 | 12.00% |
| £1m - £10m | 1,001 | 10.90% |
| Over £10m | 187 | 8.27% |
| Total | 28,508 | 14.72% |
Distribution by charity regulator¶
| Regulator | Charities with tag | Percent of all charities |
|---|---|---|
| ccew | 22,340 | 13.01% |
| oscr | 7,042 | 28.18% |
| ccni | 1,089 | 15.53% |
| Total | 30,471 | 14.95% |
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. |
£128,173,000 |
| 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 |
| SRUC [Charity number: SC003712] The objects for which the Institution is established are, for the benefit of the public in Scotland and elsewhere, to advance education, science and environmental protection and improvement and in furtherance of these purposes the Institution will:- 4.1.1 equip, carry on, maintain and develop a college or school or schools having as its, or their, main objects the provision of tertiary education and in particular the teaching and study of, advice on and research into the Natural Economy and so improving knowledge, training and skill levels and encouraging entrepreneurial activity, and to provide appropriate business support, in Natural Economy-related opportunities across rural Scotland. 4.1.2 expand research and education capacity in relation to the Natural Economy, developing stronger partnership working between all stakeholders including public bodies. 4.1.3 support and encourage rural communities endowed with significant Natural Economy assets to develop sustainability and inclusivity based on those assets. and 4.1.4 encourage people and communities across Scotland to grasp the opportunities of the Natural Economy to deliver a green recovery based on high quality natural capital assets. 4.2 In this clause, as elsewhere in these articles, the expression “Natural Economy” and cognate words, where the context permits, means ecosystem services being agriculture, fishing and aquaculture, food and drink, energy (including renewables), forestry, logging, and manufacture of wood and tourism and generally any and all associated sciences, technologies, crafts and skills, and all matters of whatever nature related to the use of land and water resources, health (including animal health and veterinary services), all aspects of economics and socio-economics, leisure, leisure activities and industries, wildlife habitats, conservation, climate change, natural capital, biodiversity and game management, the rural way of life and environment and the sustainable use of natural resources. |
£84,723,000 |
Ten random charities¶
| Name | Latest income |
|---|---|
| 1ST COTGRAVE BROWNIE PACK [Charity number: 1032344] Education/TrainingArts/CultureSports/Recreation |
£1,979 |
| COCKERMOUTH AND PAPCASTLE RECREATIONAL CHARITY [Charity number: 1040902] Provide donations to recreational organisations within the Cockermouth and Papcastle area |
£4,164 |
| BARKING & DAGENHAM UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE'S ASSOCIATION [Charity number: 1156406] The Charity support local communities to reduce their unemployment through developing their emloyabiity skill, arrange work placement and support in job searching. The main activities are to arrange employment training workshops, ESOL, education classes, health advice and recreational activities for disavantaged communities. |
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| HARTLAND VILLAGE HALL [Charity number: 1002517] A village hall for the use of the inhabitants of the parish of Hartland in the County of Devon. Without distinction of political religious or other opinions including use 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 inhabitants. |
£25,023 |
| Linwood Community Development Trust [Charity number: SC043633] The Company’s main purpose is consistent with furthering the achievement of sustainable development. The charitable purposes of the Company are: (i) The provision of and access to recreational sporting facilities and activities for the residents of Linwood and the area within the Community. (ii) The promotion and provision of training opportunities, particularly among the residents within the Community, with particular reference to skills which will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment. (iii) To advance education and in particular to promote opportunities for lifelong learning for the benefit of the residents of the area within the Community. (iv) To promote and advance the health and wellbeing of the residents of the area within the Community. (v) To relieve poverty among the residents of the area within the Community. (vi) To advance the protection and improvement of the environment of the area within the Community. (vii) The advancement of citizenship and community development. |
£375,908 |
| Homeless World Cup Foundation [Charity number: SC037091] The objects for which the Company is established are, by giving opportunities to homeless people to meet and interact with other people and to gain self respect and confidence. to relieve the poverty of, and to improve the health, living conditions and quality of life of, homeless people. to provide homeless people and young people with facilities and equipment for playing football. and to promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for playing sport. |
£496,754 |
| Dundee Deaf Sports and Social Club [Charity number: SC040966] The charitable purpose objects of the group shall be the provision of recreational facilities or the organisation of recreational facilities with the object of improving the conditions of life for deaf and hard of hearing people in Tayside and North Fife. |
£10,962 |
| ON COURSE FOUNDATION [Charity number: 1136618] OCF provides long-term benefits for wounded, injured and sick Servicemen, women and veterans through the medium of golf. It provides golf familiarisation, skills and employment training, and then offers confidence-building practical training through work experience placements for those who wish to pursue full-time employment, which is a key element of physical and psychological recovery. |
£821,247 |
| CARE IN EGHAM AND DISTRICT [Charity number: 292702] Helps clients in Egham and the surrounding district by driving (mainly to hospitals, doctors, dentists and shops), shopping for clients, visiting, gardening, providing information and running outings. |
£10,008 |
| Transition Extreme Sports Limited [Charity number: SC036358] To provide, in the interests of social welfare, facilities for recreation and other leisure time activities available to the public at large with a view to improving their conditions of life. To promote and protect the welfare and physical health of people living in the vicinity of the facilities operated by the company, and to assist in the relief of ill health and the provision of health education for such people. To help young people in Aberdeen and its environs (without distinction, on the grounds of race, colour, religious beliefs, sexuality, nationality, ethnic origin, gender, disability, age or responsibility or responsibility for dependants) through leisure time and educational activities, to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities so that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society by giving young people opportunities for enjoyable and constructive leisure time. enabling young people to find new interests and to form effective relationships with other people. and encouraging them to organise and conduct these activities for themselves, thus learning to accept and handle responsibility. To advance education, particularly in the fields of music and the arts. To relieve unemployment for the public benefit in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment. To promote, establish, operate and/or support other projects and initiatives of a charitable nature. |
£878,289 |
