AGE CONCERN WIGAN BOROUGH

Registered charity 1103022 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE UK WIGAN BOROUGH

The organisation works with older people in the Borough of Wigan. We provide a range of services, support, advice and information to enable older people to enjoy an improved quality of life.We employ approximately 50 staff and work with around 70 volunteers and aim to have a presence across the borough.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE IN AND AROUND THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WIGAN (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE AREA OF BENEFIT").

Area of benefit: IN AND AROUND THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WIGAN.

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 13% to £1,036,517, while total expenditure was £1,074,832, resulting in a net deficit for the year. Despite this, the trustees report the charity remained in a sound financial position, supported by unrestricted income growth and donations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Age Uk Wigan Borough (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Robert Armstrongchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Chris Hammet
• Dula Alicehajic-Becic
• Georgia Pennington
• Hilary Horrocks
• MATTHEW THOMAS HOTHERSALL
• Neil Turner
• Richard Williams · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Wigan

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 AGE CONCERN WIRRAL.

• AGE CONCERN WIRRAL income £4.1m
• AGE CONCERN EPSOM & EWELL income £119k
• AGE CONCERN LIVERPOOL & SEFTON income £2.2m
• AGE CONCERN CARLTON AND DISTRICT income £244k
• AGE CONCERN BEDFORDSHIRE income £1.9m
• AGE CONCERN VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ELDERLY MERSTHAM, REDHILL AND REIGATE income £183k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.