WRIGHTINGTON, WIGAN AND LEIGH HEALTH SERVICES CHARITY

Registered charity 1048659 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THREE WISHES, WRIGHTINGTON, WIGAN AND LEIGH NHS TRUST CHARITIES

The mission of Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Health Service Charity is to further improve the quality of patient care, through staff training, purchasing medical equipment and enhancing the patient environment and experience. This is achieved through the generosity of the general public and by fundraising activities, events and appeals.

Objects

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Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £34,000 for the year, with total income of £290,000 falling short of total expenditure of £324,000. Despite this deficit, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,176,000, which significantly exceed its stated target reserve of £16,000. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Three Wishes (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• WRIGHTINGTON WIGAN & LEIGH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Wigan

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RAISING HEALTH.

• RAISING HEALTH income £345k
• WIRRAL UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £540k
• MY WISH CHARITY income £660k
• County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Charity income £380k
• THE HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS HEALTH CHARITY income £2.4m
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE HEALTH CHARITABLE FUND income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.