SUPPORT FOR WIGAN ARRIVALS PROJECT

Registered charity 1124034 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide practical support for migrant arrivals (in particular, but not exclusively, asylum seekers and refugees).To aid and promote integration.To alleviate isolation and exclusion.To encourage participation in volunteering actiivities..To foster the development of community-led wellbeing.To advance public education.

Objects

1 THE RELIEF OF ASYLUM SEEKERS, REFUGEES AND MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES RESIDENT IN THE WIGAN BOROUGH WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE AND ASSISTANTS.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, OTHER STATUTORY AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS IN ORDER TO ASSIST THEIR INCLUSION INTO THE WIDER COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, 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 · 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 the charity incurred a net expenditure of £538 for the year, resulting in a slight decrease in total net assets from £118,871 to £118,333. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £29,468, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of approximately three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 03/02/2022, 3 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jessica Dreworthchair
• Emma Atherton
• Lynn Taylor
• SUSAN JANET DECAMP · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steve Atherton · 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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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
• HOMELESS SUPPORT PROJECT income £251k
• Migrant Help income £69.8m
• MIGRANT ACTION income £338k
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• WELCOME CHURCHES income £321k

Side by side with its peers

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