THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH PENNINGTON (MANCHESTER DIOCESE)

Registered charity 1130715 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRIST CHURCH PENNINGTON

Operate all aspects of a Church of England Parish

Objects

Promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income

£214k

Latest spending

£245k

Registered

2009

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased by £19,371 during the year, leaving free reserves of £31,718, which the trustees confirm meet their policy target of 2-3 months' running costs. The trustees note that without an increase in giving, maintaining these reserves will prove difficult moving forward. The charity received an unqualified independent examiner's report with no matters requiring attention.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 2-3 months' average running costs (reserves figure: £32k)

“In addition to restricted and designated funds, the trustees have resolved to maintain a minimum of 2-3 months’ average running costs in free reserves.” — page 7

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Independent Examiner fees waived/donated to his home church's PCC

“The Independent Examiner agreed to waive fees, but donations are paid to his home church's PCC in recognition of his work.” — page 16

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 20
Government income: £8,193 — grants £8,193 (1); 4% of the £213,641 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 20
Government income: £975 — grants £975 (1); under 1% of the £152,408 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 20
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; other trustee benefit

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

Register events

Received assets from another charity (12/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

ALISON JEAN DAVIES
Aimie Moore
Andrea Roberts
Anthony Murden
Cyril Lloyd Roberts
Elizabeth Dawn Partington
Emma Nicholson
Heather Elisabeth Olwen Owen
JIM JOHNSON
James Cowley
Jill Susan Piotrowska
John Albert Bennett · trustee of 1 other charity
Judith Pitt
Mark Jonathan Brown
Peter Urquhart
Rev Ayoka Olabisi
Rev ERIC JAMES WHITE · trustee of 1 other charity
Rev Jack Shepherd
Simon Robert Bennett
Steven Hall
Theresa Shenton
Vivien Doran-Johnson
Wiktor Piotrowski Piotrowski

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

Operates in: Wigan

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£214k	£245k
31/12/2024	£152k	£211k
31/12/2023	£142k	£178k
31/12/2022	£214k	£195k
31/12/2021	£256k	£165k

Common questions

Is THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH PENNINGTON (MANCHESTER DIOCESE) financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased by £19,371 during the year, leaving free reserves of £31,718, which the trustees confirm meet their policy target of 2-3 months' running costs. The trustees note that without an increase in giving, maintaining these reserves will prove difficult moving forward. The charity received an unqualified independent examiner's report with no matters requiring attention. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH PENNINGTON (MANCHESTER DIOCESE)?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH PENNINGTON (MANCHESTER DIOCESE) as a grant recipient include THE MESSAGE TRUST, THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MESSAGE TRUST	FY2021	£10k	support the work with Christians Against Poverty in their church
THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£2k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	21/02/2019	£3k	Eden Bus project in Leigh

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST STEPHEN`S, SHOTTERMILL.

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST STEPHEN`S, SHOTTERMILL income £241k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, LITTLEWORTH income £101k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF GREENSIDE income £128k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ANDOVER income £592k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CASTLECHURCH income £99k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST CUTHBERT'S CHURCH income £683k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH PENNINGTON (MANCHESTER DIOCESE)	£214k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST STEPHEN`S, SHOTTERMILL FY2025	£241k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, LITTLEWORTH FY2025	£101k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF GREENSIDE FY2025	£128k	—	below	—	noted
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ANDOVER FY2025	£592k	—	below	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CASTLECHURCH FY2025	£99k	—	above	—	no doubt

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