SKELTON BOUNTY

Registered charity 219370 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant making to registered charities in the beneficial area.

Objects

1) FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DECIDE PROVIDED THAT NO MORE THAN 80 PER CENT OF THE INCOME OF ANY YEAR MAY BE APPLIED IN ANY MANNER CALCULATED TO ADVANCE RELIGION.2) THE TRUSTEES MAY DONATE TO OR OTHERWISE ASSIST ANY SUCH OTHER CHARITY OR CHARITIES AS THEY SHALL THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: LANCASHIRE, GREATER MANCHESTER, AND MERSEYSIDE (INCLUDING THE UNITARY AREAS OF BLACKBURN, BLACKPOOL, HALTON, AND WARRINGTON).

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 · Accommodation/housing · 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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall increase in funds of £18,476, driven by investment gains of £23,526 which offset a net deficit before investment gains of £5,050. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £160,175 were equivalent to approximately 1.2 years of current-period income, which is broadly in line with the trustees' policy of holding approximately one year's income. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by James Wheelan Accountancy Limited. 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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sue Lomas OBE DLchair
• CHRISTINE REEVES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carl Hankinson DL
• Gulab Singh MBE, DL
• Michael David Rollinson JP DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nabela Chaudhry
• Paul Nicholas Brearley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Kenneth Martin

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen · Blackpool · Halton · Lancashire · Liverpool City · Manchester City · Warrington · Wirral

Income and spending

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• SHELDONIA CHARITABLE TRUST income £97k
• ARBUTHNOTT CHARITABLE TRUST income £111k
• SCJM CHARITABLE TRUST income £54k
• THE CONGLETON TOWN TRUST income £30k
• STEINBOCK FOUNDATION income £349k
• THE STOCKWELL/CLIFFE CHARITABLE TRUST income £99k

Side by side with its peers

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