WOOD STREET MISSION

Registered charity 1078337 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We aim to alleviate the effects of poverty on children and their families in Manchester by offering practical help with clothing, bedding and baby equipment, and to break the cycle of poverty by encouraging engagement with education.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS AND WITHOUT IN ANY WAY LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, IN PARTICULAR THOSE PERSONS RESIDENTS IN THE FORMER ADMINISTRATIVE AREA OF GREATER MANCHESTER

Area of benefit: MANCHESTER

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £108,979 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £2,121,827. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £442,595, representing a shortfall against the stated policy target of six months' operating costs. Despite the deficit, the trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue in operational existence on a going concern basis.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wood Street Mission (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT TOPHAM RACEchair
• Adam Malachy William Smith
• CHARLES ALEXANDER HADFIELD FRICS
• Dr Kate Parkinson
• Emma Willder
• Gillian Winter · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL NORMAN GWYNNE EVANS
• NICOLE DORREN GUY
• Philip James Harman
• VALERIE JONES

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

Operates in: Manchester City · Salford City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 WOODLAND WELLBEING CHARITABLE TRUST.

• WOODLAND WELLBEING CHARITABLE TRUST income £167k
• MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP income £93k
• WITHY TREES WELFARE & EDUCATION income £794k
• THE CHILDHOOD TRUST income £3.3m
• MIRACLE STREET UK income £116k
• WORLD COMPASSION TRUST income £75k

Side by side with its peers

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