JIGSAW (BURY)

Registered charity 1115643 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JIGSAW

Jigsaw is a member led organisation that aims to promote Fun, Freedom & Independence for disabled people in the Bury Metropolitan area. We support people to form and maintain friendships and enjoy an active social life. The social & sport activities and befriending scheme we coordinate aim to prevent social isolation, improve self esteem and community integration.

Objects

1 TO MEET THE SOCIAL, RECREATIONAL AND SPORTING NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY IN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE THEIR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE COMMUNITY.2 TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY BY COMBATING NEGATIVE PERCEPTIONS OF DISABILITY.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LANCASHIRE.

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 · Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by 15.41% to £108,312 while expenditure increased by 7.03% to £144,012, resulting in a net deficit for the year. The charity reports that its unrestricted cash reserves have fallen to £48,382, which is below the stated policy target of covering six months of expenditure. Trustees have outlined a plan to rebuild reserves and improve financial stability 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 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
• 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Stephen Thornton
• Liam Collinge
• Michael Gwyn
• Rebecca Lunness · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Leslie Mann

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

Operates in: Bury

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JIGSAW CHARITY.

• JIGSAW CHARITY income £2.2m
• JIGSAW SUPPORT SCHEME income £80k
• JIGSAW YOUTH GROUP income £55k
• JIGSAW(SOUTHEAST) income £276k
• JIGSAW EVENTS income £44k
• THE JIGSAW CLUB income £36k

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