BOLTON TOGETHER

Registered charity 1163466 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BETTER BOLTON

Advancement of education in the subject of service provision for children,young perople and families with a view to improving their care and quality of life.

Objects

(1)The promotion of social inclusion for children, parents and carers, who are socially excluded from society, or parts of society. (2)The advancement of health of children, young people and parents/carers of children/young people and the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or any other disadvantage of children and parents/carers of children/young people.Activities in furtherance of this will include: Building partnerships between voluntary, community and social enterprise (vcse) and public sectors on relevant issues and providing funding to vcse to support the advancement in life of children and young people, and the support of families, children and young people in need.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £129,797 for the year, which was covered by funds brought forward from the previous financial year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £116,871, which is below the stated policy target of £150,000. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SCCA Ltd T/A Stafford & Co.. 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
• Investment
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08730010 · 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.

• SHAHBAZ, Wahab — director, appointed 17/03/2026on trustee list
• ARMSTRONG, Elliot John — director, appointed 12/09/2025on trustee list
• MCFARLANE, Philip John — director, appointed 09/01/2025on trustee list
• HUTCHINSON, Emma Louise — director, appointed 22/01/2024on trustee list
• AIDEED, Bashir Jama — director, appointed 24/05/2023not on trustee list
• NEEDHAM, Martin Antony — director, appointed 03/04/2023on trustee list
• DARLEY, Lindsey Jane — director, appointed 15/04/2021on trustee list
• MATTA, Beverley Clare — director, appointed 11/02/2021on trustee list
• SMALLWOOD, Gill — director, appointed 09/09/2015not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Beverley Clare Matta
• Dr GILL SMALLWOOD MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elliot Armstrong
• Emma Hutchinson
• Lindsey Darley
• Martin Needham
• Philip John McFarlane
• Wahab Shahbaz

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

Operates in: Bolton · Lancashire

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 BOLTON NURSERY LIMITED.

• BOLTON NURSERY LIMITED income £328k
• YETTON TOGETHER income £104k
• TOGETHER FOR THE COMMON GOOD income £118k
• THE AKHTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £184k
• BOLTON SOLIDARITY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £338k
• THE TOGETHER INITIATIVE income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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