WIGAN AND LEIGH CHURCHES ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILY WELFARE

Registered charity 1076830 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WIGAN CHURCHES ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILY WELFARE, WIGAN FAMILY WELFARE

Wigan Family Welfare offer advocacy and counselling to both adults and children. It provides mental health advocacy, independent mental health advocacy, children's advocacy and supports a self advocacy group for people with Learning Disabilities . The counselling it provides is in a variety of settings from certain Secondary Schools to Sure Start Children's Centres.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF FAMILIES IN THE WIGAN METROPOLITAN BOROUGH AREA AND IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL HELP AND OTHER RESOURCES WHICH INCLUDE, INFORMATION, ADVICE AND SUPPORT

Area of benefit: WIGAN METROPOLITAN BOROUGH AREA

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £40,988 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds carried forward reaching £891,136. The trustees' report indicates that reserves of £891,136 are held, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover six months of running costs. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fairhurst Audit Services Ltd. Discloses 4 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
• Conflicting interests
• Internal risk management 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03773810

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.

• HYDE, Jillian Ann — director, appointed 02/12/2019on trustee list
• LATHAM, Cameron David — director, appointed 29/06/2017not on trustee list
• MURDOCH, Jessica Kate — director, appointed 29/06/2017on trustee list
• JOHNSON, John Alan — director, appointed 26/11/2012on trustee list
• STAINTON-POLLAND, Conor Brian Gerald, Canon — director, appointed 29/03/2004not on trustee list
• PARSONS, Stuart Huw — secretary, appointed 26/07/2004

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN JOHNSON
• Cameron Latham MSc. · trustee of 1 other charity
• FATHER CONOR BRIAN GERALD STAINTON-POLLA
• Jessica Murdoch
• Jillian Hyde
• Rev Roland Harvey · trustee of 2 other charities
• Steve Hardaker · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Lancashire · Liverpool City · Manchester City · Salford City · St Helens · Trafford · Warrington · Wigan

Income and spending

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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 CLOVERLEAF ADVOCACY 2000 LTD.

• CLOVERLEAF ADVOCACY 2000 LTD income £7.5m
• EMBRACE WIGAN & LEIGH income £783k
• CONWY AND DENBIGHSHIRE MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICE LTD income £1.3m
• WIGAN AND LEIGH COMMUNITY CHARITY income £275k
• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS WALES LIMITED income £1.6m
• ADVOCACY FOCUS income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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