WIGAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB

Registered charity 1134451 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Wigan Youth Zone

Our aim is to work with young people between the ages of 8 to 19 and up to 25 for young people with additional needs, with particular emphasis on young people from disadvantaged circumstances. We are a seven night per week youth provision, offering a universal service as well as a targeted offer for young people using various mediums of sport, arts and one-to-one activities all in the same venue.

Objects

TO HELP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE RESIDENT IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES BY PROMOTING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY ROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY IMPROVE

Area of benefit: NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · 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 achieved a small cash surplus of -£60k (excluding depreciation) for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a reduction in deficits from previous years. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves stood at £1.934m, with £1.534m in free reserves, which is approximately 10 months of unrestricted expenditure cover. The group holds £2.101m in cash and investments with few trade debtors or creditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fairhurst Audit Services Ltd. Discloses 4 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
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Wigan Youth Zone gets cash boost to help young people find work wigantoday.net · 27/01/2020

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06944425
• Trading subsidiary: WIGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (TRADING) LIMITED Companies House 08891815 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wigan Youth Zone (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• MILLER, Debbie Louise — director, appointed 28/07/2025on trustee list
• HILTON, Michael Robert — director, appointed 24/02/2025on trustee list
• MCCORMACK, Steven James — director, appointed 31/01/2025on trustee list
• ENTWISTLE, Stuart John — director, appointed 06/01/2025on trustee list
• FLYNN, Laura — director, appointed 30/03/2024on trustee list
• BECK, Charlotte — director, appointed 21/08/2019on trustee list
• FARRINGTON, Paul Graham — director, appointed 21/08/2019on trustee list
• SPEAKMAN, Gary — director, appointed 09/07/2019on trustee list
• FINCH, Nigel Thomas — director, appointed 02/05/2019on trustee list
• MCALLISTER, Lisa Marie — director, appointed 01/04/2019on trustee list
• DIGGLES, Gillian Susan — director, appointed 01/04/2019on trustee list
• SALT, Jacqueline — director, appointed 01/04/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (78% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gary Speakmanchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charlotte Beck
• Debbie Miller
• Gillian Susan Diggles
• Jacqueline Salt
• Laura Jean Flynn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lisa Marie McAllister
• Michael Robert Hilton
• Nigel Thomas Finch
• Paul Graham Farrington · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steven James McCormack
• Stuart John Entwistle

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 BOLTON LADS AND GIRLS CLUB LIMITED.

• BOLTON LADS AND GIRLS CLUB LIMITED income £2.8m
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS income £66k
• ABERKENFIG BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB income £45k
• WEST LAVINGTON YOUTH CLUB income £29k
• SEA MILLS BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB income £26k
• COVENTRY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB income £462k

Side by side with its peers

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