THINK AHEAD COMMUNITY STROKE GROUP

Registered charity 1128934 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THINK AHEAD

Think Ahead offers help to Stroke Survivors, their families and carers across Wigan and Leigh to improve the quality of their lives by providing friendship, information, advice and education together with opportunities for interaction with other members by organising outings, respite breaks and appropriate social activities.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF A STROKE, TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PERSONS WHO CARE FOR SUCH PERSONS BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND OTHER ASSISTANCE, AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION CONCERNING SUCH MATTERS IN THE DISTRICT OF WIGAN.

Area of benefit: THE DISTRICT OF WIGAN

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

Causes: Disability · 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 reported a surplus of £86,759 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £1,110,797. The trustees confirm the charity has sufficient financial resources to continue operating for at least 12 months. No material uncertainties or risks to going concern were identified in the filing.

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
• 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06654712
• Trading subsidiary: THINK AHEAD PROPERTY LTD Companies House 10550720 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LEE, Kim Gladys — director, appointed 05/05/2026on trustee list
• MCENERNEY, Brendan Ignatius — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
• HOUGHTON, Jean Anne — director, appointed 18/02/2019on trustee list
• ANDREWS, William Neville — director, appointed 23/07/2008on trustee list
• WAINWRIGHT, Penelope — secretary, appointed 30/11/2025

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brendan McEnerney
• Jean Houghton
• Kim Lee
• MR NEVILLE ANDREWS

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

Operates in: Wigan

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE THINK AHEAD ORGANISATION.

• THE THINK AHEAD ORGANISATION income £9.0m
• RETHINK CHARITY income £2.0m
• ADVANCE BRIGHTER FUTURES income £396k
• IMAGINE ACT AND SUCCEED income £12.1m
• WIGAN AND LEIGH CHURCHES ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILY WELFARE income £1.1m
• STROKE ASSOCIATION income £44.4m

Side by side with its peers

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