BOLTON WANDERERS COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 1090753 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOLTON WANDERERS FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY SCHEME, Bolton Wanderers in the Community

The Charity operates: to promote community participation in healthy recreation; to provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation or other leisure time occupation of such persons who have need for such facilities; and to advance the education of the public.

Objects

OBJECTS3 The Charity’s objects (“the Objects”) are for the benefit of the public generally and in particular (but without limitation) children and young people in the Greater Manchester, Lancashire and surrounding areas:-3.1 to promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of association football and other sports capable of improving health (“facilities” in this Article 3 means land, buildings, equipment and organising sporting activities);3.2 to provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation or other leisure time occupation of such persons who have need for such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life; 3.3 to promote social inclusion for the public benefit 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’ means being excluded from society, or part of society, as a result of being a member of a socially and economically deprived community.”)3.4 “to develop the capacity and skills of the members of the socially and economically disadvantaged community of Bolton in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society”.3.5 The promotion of equality and diversity for the public benefit by (a) the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religion;(b) advancing education and raising awareness in equality and diversity;(c) promoting activities to foster understanding between people from diverse backgrounds;(d) cultivating a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity.3.6 to advance the education of the public through such means as the trustees think fit in accordance with the law of charity; and3.7 for the general purposes of such charitable bodies or for such other exclusively charitable purposes in each case as the trustees may from time to time decide.

Area of benefit: GREATER MANCHESTER, LANCASHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total deficit of £186k for the year, with unrestricted funds falling to £14,916, which is below the stated reserves policy target of 3-4 months' of unrestricted costs. Despite this deficit and unrestricted income being 73% behind budget, the trustees confirm the charity has sufficient liquid resources to meet liabilities and continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by AAB Audit and Accountancy Limited. 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
• 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
• 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 — Bolton Wanderers in the Community (matched by registered charity number).

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (65% 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: 6.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVE SINGLETONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alan Walsh
• Bashir Jama Aideed
• John McGinlay
• Jonathan Lord
• Marie Bisset
• NORMA RUTHERFORD
• Paul William Graham Holliday
• Susan Mary Johnson
• William Dawson

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

Operates in: Bolton · Lancashire

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WALTON COMMUNITY CENTRE AND RECREATION GROUND.

• WALTON COMMUNITY CENTRE AND RECREATION GROUND income £30k
• WALTON COMMUNITY & ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP income £76k
• LUTON TOWN FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £999k
• Boroughbridge Community Charity income £83k
• THE WEST END COMMUNITY TRUST income £45k
• WALTON COMMUNITY FACILITIES income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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