HIGHER FOLDS COMMUNITY CENTRE (LEIGH) LIMITED

Registered charity 1076911 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The work of the Centre as a community anchor is carried out by a team of staff and volunteers, who deliver services to the local area to meet the needs of local people. Current activities improve the fitness and health, provide food for those in poverty, deliver early years education, improve life skills and employment opportunities and reduce isolation of local older people.

Objects

TO PROVIDE BENEFITS FOR THE INHABITANTS OF HIGHER FOLDS LEIGH IN WIGAN WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, OR OF POLITICAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS. BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND THE LOCAL INHABITANTS ( FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION)

Area of benefit: HIGHER FOLEDS, LEIGH IN WIGAN

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £67,333 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £120,069 to £52,736. The trustees confirmed the charity has sufficient funds to operate as a going concern for the next 12 months. However, the independent examiner noted errors in the prior year's accounts that prevented verification of the opening fund balances.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03560600 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Perfect Sense Energy — “With support from Perfect Sense Energy, the Energy Resilience Fund & The Social Investment Business, we were able to part-fund an energy-sav…” (source page)
• Energy Resilience Fund — “With support from Perfect Sense Energy, the Energy Resilience Fund & The Social Investment Business, we were able to part-fund an energy-sav…” (source page)
• The Social Investment Business — “With support from Perfect Sense Energy, the Energy Resilience Fund & The Social Investment Business, we were able to part-fund an energy-sav…” (source page)
• National Lottery — “We are thrilled to announce that the National Lottery has awarded us funding for the next three years” (source page)

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.

• MOTTRAM, Anthony — director, appointed 04/12/2024not on trustee list
• KENDRICK, Mark Arthur — director, appointed 11/03/2019on trustee list
• WALKER, Frederick Bown — director, appointed 24/02/2010not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• COUNCILLOR FRED WALKER
• HAZEL DIXON
• Mark Kendrick

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

Operates in: Wigan

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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