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Registered charity (CIO) · Portsmouth

The Peter Ashley Activity Centres

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Accommodation/housing, Amateur Sport and 2 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.peterashleyactivitycentres.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2024£995k£1.0m
  • 2023£951k£1.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£997k£957k
  • 2021£549k£631k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SOCIAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY:(B) TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF AND VISITORS TO SOUTH HAMPSHIRE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE, DISABILITY OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS:(C) TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ACTIVITY CENTRE OR CENTRES AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME, WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY, PERSONS OR ORGANISATIONS, IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS.

Grants received

10 grants · £616,509 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £287,351 (4 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £237,863
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £58,500 (3 grants)
  • Power to Change Trust · £25,000
  • Sport England · £7,795

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £40,5002026-03-11
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £237,8632024-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £26,4652022-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £241,6612021-04-01
  • Sport England £7,7952021-01-05
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

5 trustees on the board

8.4y median 10y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Accommodation/housing 5Education/training 5General Charitable Purposes 5

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.4m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.8 in 2021

28 from 23 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1162650
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 13 Jul 2015
Contact on the register
02392321223 · office@peterashleyactivitycentres.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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