BOLTON WYRESDALE AMATEUR FOOTBALL AND SPORTS CLUB

Registered charity 1195715 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our Objects are to promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of association Football and other sports in the Bolton/Bury/Lancashire area

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT GENERALLY BUT WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE INHABITANTS OF LANCASHIRE AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS:3.1 TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL (FACILITIES IN THIS ARTICLE 3 (OBJECTS) MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES);3.2 TO ADVANCE AMATEUR SPORT BY PROMOTING ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL AND SUCH OTHER SPORTS OR GAMES WHICH PROMOTE HEALTH BY INVOLVING PHYSICAL OR MENTAL SKILL OR EXERTION AND WHICH ARE UNDERTAKEN ON AN AMATEUR BASIS;3.3 TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;3.4 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, BY PROVIDING THE OPPORTUNITY AND FACILITIES WHICH IMPROVE FITNESS AND HEALTH SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES SUCH THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £2,181,068 as of 30 June 2025, with a surplus of £78,905 for the year. Per the trustees' report, all funds are unrestricted and sufficient to complete the new facility development and cover operating costs. The charity was exempt from audit under the small companies regime and received an independent examination with no material concerns noted.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 13462562 · 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.

• DOLWIN, Joseph Paul — director, appointed 01/05/2025on trustee list
• CRAWFORD, Stanley — director, appointed 17/06/2021on trustee list
• MCKENNA, Richard Joseph — director, appointed 17/06/2021on trustee list
• WILSON, Stephen — director, appointed 17/06/2021on 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 (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stanley Crawfordchair
• Joseph Dolwin
• Richard McKenna
• Stephen Wilson

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Lancashire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BOLTON WANDERERS COMMUNITY TRUST.

• BOLTON WANDERERS COMMUNITY TRUST income £1.5m
• BOLTON COMMUNITY LEISURE income £6.3m
• Whitstable Town Football in the Community income £151k
• PRESTON NORTH END COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION TRUST income £1.8m
• BARNES RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB income £399k
• Active Bolton income £3.2m

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