CHESTER PRIDE

Registered charity 1161379 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Chester Pride provisions an LGBTQ community festival, an LGBTQ support helpline, social and support groups, and LGBTQ library, provision of free sexual and menstrual products, and undertakes various other works to address key issues the LGBTQ communities of Cheshire and North Wales face. We aim to end discrimination against LGBTQ people, and build inclusivity for them across our area of operation.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION IN RELATION TO LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER (LGBT) PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THOSE RESIDENT IN CHESHIRE (THE ‘AREA OF BENEFIT’), FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY RAISING AWARENESS OF ISSUES AFFECTING SAID PERSONS IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING AND STAGING AN ANNUAL LGBT FESTIVAL.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £63,266 for the year, resulting in negative unrestricted reserves of £89,137. The trustees have identified a going concern risk due to these negative reserves but remain confident in continuing operations by securing additional future funding.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Conflicting interests
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08958558 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: CHESTER PRIDE TRADING LTD Companies House 13499749 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chester Pride (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.

• DIGGORY, Wesley — director, appointed 29/10/2023on trustee list
• HOWARD, Michael James — director, appointed 29/10/2023on trustee list
• ALLMARK, Warren-Lee — director, appointed 25/03/2014not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• WARREN LEE ALLMARKchair
• Jill Houlbrook
• Michael Howard
• Wesley Diggory
• Zianna Faith Cassidy

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Conwy · Denbighshire · Flintshire · Wirral · Wrexham

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 BRISTOL PRIDE.

• BRISTOL PRIDE income £756k
• WARWICKSHIRE PRIDE income £118k
• CARDIFF WALES LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER MARDI GRAS income £698k
• LCR PRIDE FOUNDATION income £347k
• THE PROUD TRUST LTD income £944k
• YORK PRIDE income £151k

Side by side with its peers

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