LEIGH YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1139162 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEIGH COMMUNITY TRUST

The charity delivers activities that help the needs of the local community by designing, planning and implementing programmes that increase individuals physical activity levels, aid greater academic achievement, increase health and social wellbeing and increase the skills of local community members and develop community togetherness.

Objects

1 THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE LEIGH, WIGAN AND SURROUNDING AREAS BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR PLAYING RUGBY LEAGUE AND OTHER SPORTS2 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF LEIGH, WIGAN AND SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY THE REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH SUBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, MATHS, ENGLISH AND THE HISTORY OF LEIGH AND WIGAN; AND4 TO RELIEVE THE CHARITABLE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT

Area of benefit: LEIGH, WIGAN AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · 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 net income of £56,830 for the year ended 30 September 2025, reversing a previous net expenditure. However, the charity holds an unrestricted funds deficit of £34,263, indicating that its general reserves are negative and below any satisfactory level acknowledged by the trustees.

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 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 31/07/2024, 1 day after the 30/07/2024 due date); year ending 01/10/2021 (received 25/08/2022, 24 days after the 01/08/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Leigh Community Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• LYNNE MARIE CALVERTchair
• Deborah Sutch
• Gareth Sutton
• John Holland
• STEVEN PIKE

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

Operates in: Bolton · Wigan

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EASTLEIGH YOUTH & COMMUNITY TRUST.

• EASTLEIGH YOUTH & COMMUNITY TRUST income £505k
• WIGAN AND LEIGH COMMUNITY CHARITY income £275k
• WESTBURY LEIGH COMMUNITY PROJECT LTD income £35k
• LIVE AND LEARN income £984k
• DURHAM AREA YOUTH income £257k
• CATHAYS AND CENTRAL YOUTH AND COMMUNITY PROJECT income £967k

Side by side with its peers

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