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The Guernsey Business CensusChapter 7 of 16

Leisure & Recreation

223 organisations are counted with Leisure & Recreation as their primary sector — 1 in 16 of everything with a sector on record, and the 7th largest of 16. A further 70 organisations work in it alongside another sector.

As of 30 September 2026⧉ Cite this chapterBrowse the Leisure & Recreation directory← The whole census

The count

223

organisations counted with Leisure & Recreation as their primary sector, across the Bailiwick’s four inhabited islands.

293Work in it at all
8Sub-sectors on record
10Parishes represented
132With capabilities mapped
10Capability domains

Coverage

#coverage ⧉

How complete is this sector’s count?

223 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 67%

An estimated 67% of this sector’s organisations are counted — the 2nd-lowest measured coverage of the 16 sectors.

Every count in this chapter is a floor, never a total.

How coverage is measured →

Headline figures

#headlines ⧉

The figures you can quote

The figures in this chapter that clear the citable bar — coverage high enough, count large enough, denominator named. A figure that does not clear it appears further down as a chart, badged, or not at all.

Organisations whose main line of work is Leisure & Recreation223Of the 3,582 organisations with a primary sector (100% of 3,582)1 in 16 of the organisations with a primary sector on record — the 7th largest of 16 sectors counted.
Share of parish-known Leisure & Recreation based in St Peter Port36%A parish on record for 183 of 223 organisations (82%)66 of the 183 whose parish is on record — a concentration of 0.84 against the parish's share of everything counted, the lowest parish concentration of the 9 sectors where it can be counted.
The largest kind of Leisure & Recreation organisation on record61This attribute is on record for 223 of 223 organisations (100%)Clubs & Societies — 27% of the sector, ahead of Sports & Recreation (48) and Arts & Entertainment (47).
Organisations working in Leisure & Recreation at all293Counted over all 3,616 active organisations70 more than the 223 that call it their main line — counted in every sector they work in, so sector totals add up to more than the island does.

What stands out

#signature ⧉

Half of those with a founding year began after 2004, and 18 of 142 were founded a century or more ago

A founding year is on record for 142 of the 223 counted here. The island's median is 2006, on 1,748 of 3,616 (48%) — below the citable bar, which is why it sits in this sentence rather than in the heading above. Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.

Founding era#signature-age-eras ⧉

Leisure & Recreation organisations by founding era

A founding year on record for 142 of 223 Leisure & Recreation organisations (64%)

02040pre-18001950–792000–09362020s

Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.

The earliest founding year on record in this sector is 1842, published by Royal Guernsey Agricultural & Horticultural Society. A floor date: the oldest we have found, not the oldest on the island.

Median founding year on record2004A founding year on record for 142 of 223 organisations (64%)Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.
Trading for a century or more18A founding year on record for 142 of 223 organisations (64%)Of those that publish a founding year at all.18 organisations — too few to headline
Founded in the 2020s18A founding year on record for 142 of 223 organisations (64%)Of those that publish a founding year at all.18 organisations — too few to headline
Oldest founding year on record1842A founding year on record for 142 of 223 organisations (64%)Royal Guernsey Agricultural & Horticultural Society — the earliest year any organisation in this sector publishes. The year and the organisation are read from the same live claim the histogram counts, so the tile disappears rather than going stale.

Sub-sectors

#composition ⧉

Clubs & Societies leads, on 61 organisations

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 70 organisations outside this count work in Leisure & Recreation alongside another sector — they are not in the bars below.

Primary sub-sector#composition-l2 ⧉

Leisure & Recreation by sub-sector

Counted over all 223 active Leisure & Recreation organisations

Clubs & Societies61 27%Sports & Recreation48 22%Arts & Entertainment47 21%Children's Activities26 12%Attractions & Activities17 8%Outdoor Activities17 8%Wellness & Relaxation6 3%Gaming & Hobbies1 0%

Counts each organisation's primary sub-sector, so the bars sum to the sector, and each is the roll call the directory lists under that name.

70 further organisations work in Leisure & Recreation alongside another sector and are not in these bars: each is counted in the sub-sector of the sector it calls its main line. "Works in", never "is in".

Parishes

#parishes ⧉

St Peter Port holds 66 Leisure & Recreation organisations

36% of the 183 whose parish is on record. Off Guernsey: 20 on Alderney, 4 on Sark and 1 on Herm.

Headcount#parishes-count ⧉

Leisure & Recreation organisations by parish

A parish on record for 183 of 223 Leisure & Recreation organisations (82%)

Organisations066
St Peter P…66St Sampson29Vale25Castel24St Saviour5St Pierre du Bois4Torteval5Forest5St Martin13St Andrew7

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

Guernsey parishes only; Alderney, Sark and Herm are counted in the island split above.

15 Guernsey organisations in this sector have no parish on record — a real gap, not an exclusion, and the map fills in as verification proceeds; a further 25 organisations trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.

Concentration#parishes-lq ⧉

Where Leisure & Recreation is over- and under-represented

A parish on record for 183 of 223 Leisure & Recreation organisations (82%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…0.84St Sampson1.20Vale1.06Castel1.56St Saviour0.86St Pierre du Bois—Torteval3.17Forest0.82St Martin0.81St Andrew1.11

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

The same island, drawn on a location quotient: this sector's share of a parish against its share of the island. Hatched parishes hold too few of this sector to compare at all. Parishes holding fewer than 30 of this sector are drawn and tabled but never named in a sentence: a quotient over a handful of organisations moves on one new record, and a superlative that flips that easily is not one.

Capabilities

#capabilities ⧉

What they can do

Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

By group#capability-groups ⧉

Capability groups on record

A capability on record for 132 of 223 Leisure & Recreation organisations (59%)

On record for 59% — indicative
Sports & activities51 39%Arts, entertainment & culture30 23%Attractions & heritage29 22%Children's activities20 15%Fitness & movement20 15%Clubs & societies16 12%Alternative & complementary2 2%Care & support2 2%Spa, massage & relaxation2 2%

Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

54 of the 132 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (41%). Two capabilities inside one group are one trade, not two, which is why this counts groups rather than nodes. 59% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 10 domains, against 71% island-wide. The typical mapped organisation holds 2 capabilities, against 3 island-wide.

The busiest nodes#capability-nodes ⧉

What the most organisations are on record for

A capability on record for 132 of 223 Leisure & Recreation organisations (59%)

On record for 59% — indicative
Arts workshops & tuition11 8%Painters & visual artists11 8%Team & field sports11 8%Sports governance & development10 8%Dance9 7%Nature reserves & trails9 7%Sports venues & facilities9 7%Children's dance classes & scho…8 6%Archery & shooting ranges7 5%Art galleries7 5%Children's music tuition7 5%Coastal & walking trails7 5%

An organisation on two of these is counted on both, so the rows add up to more than the number of organisations.

What goes with what#capability-pairs ⧉

Capabilities held together

A capability on record for 132 of 223 Leisure & Recreation organisations (59%)

On record for 59% — indicative
Organisations08
Arts worksho…Painters & v…Team & field…Sports gover…DanceNature reser…Sports venue…Children's d…Archery & sh…Art galleriesChildren's m…Coastal & wa…Arts worksho…Painters & v…Team & field…Sports gover…DanceNature reser…Sports venue…Children's d…Archery & sh…Art galleriesChildren's m…Coastal & wa…

Each cell counts the organisations on record for both capabilities; the diagonal is blank on purpose. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

How central is it?#capability-roles ⧉

Is this what they do, or one of many things they do?

A positioning note on record for 116 of 223 Leisure & Recreation organisations (52%)

On record for 52% — indicative
This is what they do103 89%Core to the business40 34%One of many services27 23%A sideline13 11%

The roles overlap: one business can be “this is what they do” for one capability and “a sideline” for another, so these rows add up past the number of businesses.

Online presence

#digital ⧉

75% of Leisure & Recreation organisations have a website of their own

Against 67% island-wide — 8 points above the island rate, mid-table on own-site rate: 6th of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. The gap is the robust part: the sector’s own rate is measured over the organisations we have found, and the ones still missing are disproportionately the web-invisible.

Sector against island#digital-vs-island ⧉

Digital presence, this sector and the island

Counted over all 223 active Leisure & Recreation organisations

Leisure & RecreationThe island
0%50%100%Has a website67%75%Website on a .gg domain27%27%Links a social account of any kind50%53%Links a Facebook page47%51%Links an Instagram account23%35%

Each track carries both values at its ends; the gap between leisure & recreation and the island is in the table view. Measured in share of organisations.

Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.

Each row is a share of all organisations counted, in the sector and island-wide — not a share of those with a website, so the rows are comparable with one another.

Leisure & Recreation organisations with a website of their own168Counted over all 223 active Leisure & Recreation organisationsA site of their own on record — not a directory listing or a social page.
Of those websites, the share on a .gg domain36%Counted over all 223 active Leisure & Recreation organisations61 of 168, against 40% of the 2,432 island-wide. Counts the .gg family — .gg, .co.gg, .org.gg and the rest.

Legal form and ownership

#form ⧉

Legal form, ownership and size — as far as they are published

These are published far less often than a phone number. Each module below states its own coverage, and renders the gap rather than a confident number over a silent base.

Legal form#form-legal ⧉

Leisure & Recreation organisations by legal form

A legal form on record for 95 of 223 Leisure & Recreation organisations (43%)

On record for 43% — indicative
Limited company31 33%Charity28 29%Limited by guarantee18 19%Sole trader7 7%States entity7 7%Other3 3%Partnership1 1%

Sole traders are the systematic undercount here: a limited company publishes its form, a sole trader rarely does.

A further 21 organisations hold something in the legal-form slot that is not a legal form — filing notes, a bare year. Those leave the denominator rather than inflating “other”.

Gaps

#gaps ⧉

What this chapter cannot yet say

These modules are on record for too few of the 223 organisations counted here to draw. A blank is deliberate: the module reports its base rather than a number it cannot stand behind.

  • Opening hours60 of 223 on record

This chapter’s row on the evidence map →

Newly verified

#pulse ⧉

The last 90 days

+98
Leisure & Recreation organisations added to the register (discovery, not openings)
0
recorded as no longer trading in the window

Use these numbers

#use ⧉

Free to reuse, with attribution

Every section has a stable anchor and every count traces to published evidence — licence CC BY 4.0, credit “Island Graph” with a link.

census.csvsector × parishcensus.jsonevery aggregatedata.jsonthe Q3 2026 editionAbout the dataFull methodologyPress desk
Island Graph, The Guernsey Business Census — Leisure & Recreation, Q3 2026 edition, island.gg/census/2026-q3/leisure-recreation — frozen 30 September 2026.

The whole Q3 2026 edition →

How this chapter counts

#method ⧉

The bases every figure here divides by

This chapter counts over the 223 active organisations whose primary sector is Leisure & Recreation — 1 in 16 of the 3,582 with a primary sector on record; the wider 293 who work in Leisure & Recreation at all are counted in every sector they work in, and are used only where a sentence says “works in”. Each module then divides by what is actually on record for it — a parish for 183, a founding year for 142, a capability resolved to the graph for 132, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 60 — and those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.

This sector’s own coverage was measured at 67% on 30 September 2026, by capture–recapture against Google's business listings for the Bailiwick, with every organisation that was itself added from those listings left out of the comparison so the two counts stay independent. Every count above is a floor.

This chapter’s row on the evidence map — what each module here may and may not claim →

Full methodology — populations, tiers, biases and how coverage is measured →