BOLTON LADS AND GIRLS CLUB LIMITED

Registered charity 1051292 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q16823778 · Wikipedia

We aim to enable young people aged 8 to 25 especially from disadvantaged circumstances to realise their full potential. This is achieved by a range of universal and targeted programmes designed by young people to meet their needs. In 2002, we opened a state of the art youth facility from where 3,400 young people access sport, mentoring and arts activities "under one roof", seven days per week.

Objects

TO HELP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE RESIDENT IN BOLTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES BY PROMOTING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED

Area of benefit: BOLTON

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bolton, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £342,608 were held at the end of the period, which is below the charity's stated policy target of approximately £500,000 (three months of core expenditure). The charity reported a net expenditure of £419,075 for the year, driven by increased charitable activity costs, though it remains confident in its 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 audited by SCCA Ltd T/as Stafford & Co. Discloses 6 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03109525
• Trading subsidiary: B.L.G.C. TRADING COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 04732952

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bolton Lads & Girls Club (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• KHAN, Tahera — director, appointed 28/01/2025on trustee list
• WILSON, Lisa Jane — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• NALLY, Edward — director, appointed 26/07/2022on trustee list
• TAYLOR-RIMMER, Ann — director, appointed 26/07/2022on trustee list
• MORLEY, Kathryn Ann — director, appointed 28/09/2021on trustee list
• GREENHALGH, Stephen — director, appointed 10/06/2021on trustee list
• JUHASZ, Andras Gyula, Dr — director, appointed 10/06/2021on trustee list
• SHARPE, Noel Clare — director, appointed 26/11/2019on trustee list
• MATTHAIOU, Aris — director, appointed 23/10/2018on trustee list
• SINGLETON, David — director, appointed 01/05/2008not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Taylor-Rimmer
• Aris Matthaiou
• Dr Andras Gyula Juhasz
• EDWARD NALLY · trustee of 3 other charities
• Kathryn Ann Morley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lisa Jane Wilson
• Noel Sharpe
• Rev Stephen Greenhalgh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tahera Khan

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

Operates in: Bolton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WIGAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB.

• WIGAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB income £2.2m
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS income £66k
• YOUNG LADIES CLUB income £204k
• WEST LAVINGTON YOUTH CLUB income £29k
• ELLINGTON JUNIORS FOOTBALL CLUB income £109k
• ASHTON VALE CLUB FOR YOUNG PEOPLE income £39k

Side by side with its peers

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