VAT on football pitch hire

[MBoon]

Hello

Me and my friends have just started playing 5aside football once a week and hiring a local school's football pitch. We are paying VAT on this every week, and I just wondered whether we should be, since I (the person booking it) am not making any profit?

Any tips or suggests as to firstly whether I should be paying this at all? And if so, is there any way I can make myself eligble to be exempt from this?

I have looked extensively online but could not find much to help,

Many thanks

[les35]

You need to know which part of the HMRC hay stack (website) to look for your needle!
Notice 742, chapter 5 explains the rules. Usually, exemption applies to a series of lets, so I would explore this possibility.
The link is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... recreation