ACTION TOGETHER CIO

Registered charity 1165512 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACTION TOGETHER

Action Together CIO is the infrastucture organisation for the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector in Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside. We connect people with what's happening in their community, develop community ideas into action, strengthen local organisations, and provide strategic influence for the charity and voluntary sector.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF OLDHAM AND TAMESIDE AND THESURROUNDING AREA (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE “AREA OF BENEFIT”) AND, IN PARTICULAR, TO BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE.(2) TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE AND FACILITATE CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN THIRD SECTOR, STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.(3) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE:(A) “THIRD SECTOR” MEANS CHARITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES;(B) “CHARITIES” ARE ORGANISATIONS WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLEPURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES;(C) “VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES” ARE INDEPENDENTORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THECOMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICHARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION.VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES DO NOT INCLUDE LOCALGOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £12,136,217, with unrestricted reserves of £1,697,174 significantly exceeding the trustees' policy target of £875,295 for six months' running costs. The charity reported a net income of £5,432,029 and concluded it is a going concern with no material uncertainties. The financial position is supported by strong incoming resources from charitable activities and grants, alongside a healthy cash balance.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Feltons Chartered Accountants. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Action Together CIO (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Liz Windsor-Welsh — Chief Executive (source)
• Phil Trelease — Director - Finance (source)
• Holly Irwin — Director - Operations (source)
• Laura Windsor-Welsh — Director - Oldham (source)
• Maddy Hubbard — Director - Rochdale (source)
• Anna Hynes — Director - Tameside (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/12/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/12/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MS CAMILLA GUERECAchair
• Affy Rasheed
• Andrew Wiggans
• Aqub Nazir
• Danial Georgiev
• Dewan Choudhury
• Jackie McCann
• Mark Widdup
• Martin Ashton
• Mina Patel
• Mohammed Miah
• Naila Akhter

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

Operates in: Oldham · Rochdale · Tameside

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WE GET IT TOGETHER CIO.

• WE GET IT TOGETHER CIO income £64k
• COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP (LEICESTERSHIRE) income £158k
• THE TOGETHER PROJECT CIO income £335k
• NORTH BENWELL YOUTH PROJECT CIO income £179k
• MONKCHESTER COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION CIO income £50k
• TOGETHER ACTIVE income £540k

Side by side with its peers

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