EMBRACE WIGAN & LEIGH

Registered charity 1082663 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Embrace North

To promote the care, welfare, interest, treatment, education and advancement in primarily the Wigan and Leigh area and surrounding districts of people with any form of disability, their families and carers and to provide information, advice, support and personal advocacy.

Objects

The objects of the Charity are for the public benefit: • The relief of those in need because of disability or physical or mental ill-health, including (but not limited to) by the provision of support, advice and information to persons experiencing disability or ill-health and their families and carers; and• The promotion of social inclusion by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. For the purpose of this clause ‘socially excluded’ includes being excluded from society, or parts of society, because of one of more of the following factors: disability, old age, ill health (physical or mental), financial hardship, discrimination or relationship or family breakdown.

Area of benefit: WIGAN & LEIGH (OR IN THE EVENT OF ANY LOCAL GOVERNMENT RE-ORGANISAION IN AN EQUIVALENT AREA)

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £18,051 for the year, resulting in total funds of £554,184. The trustees describe the organisation as financially healthy with sufficient reserves to manage short-term funding losses, although they note challenges in recruiting staff due to non-competitive salaries. The charity faces a major funding gap of approximately £85,000 from the end of a National Lottery grant in the coming year.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (80% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOANNE BARROWchair
• Barend Philip Anthon
• Martin John Mellor
• Michael Charles Hassall
• Sheila Marie Robinson
• Tiffany Parsons

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

Operates in: Lancashire · Sheffield City · Wigan

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WIGAN AND LEIGH COMMUNITY CHARITY.

• WIGAN AND LEIGH COMMUNITY CHARITY income £275k
• WIGAN DEANERY TRUST income £571k
• EMBRACE UK COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTRE income £1.5m
• WIGAN AND LEIGH CHURCHES ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILY WELFARE income £1.1m
• ADHD Embrace income £174k
• LEIGH CARING KITCHEN income £730k

Side by side with its peers

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