GROUNDWORK CHESHIRE LANCASHIRE & MERSEYSIDE

Registered charity 514727 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GROUNDWORK CHESHIRE LANCAHSIRE & MERSEYSIDE, GROUNDWORK LANCASHIRE WEST AND WIGAN LIMITED, GROUNDWORK WIGAN AND CHORLEY, WIGAN AND CHORLEY GROUNDWORK TRUST LIMITED, WIGAN GROUNDWORK TRUST LIMITED

Groundwork delivers projects and programmes that can help: Building safer stronger communities, Helping young people realise their potential, Promoting health and well being, Reducing carbon emissions and tackling climate change, Supporting local skills and enterprise

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £521,630 for the year ended 31 March 2025, representing an 8th consecutive year of surplus. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,414,391, which is below the Board's agreed optimum policy target of £1.5m, though the trustees are confident the target will be reached in the immediate future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Menzies LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,000 - £89,999 (FY2024) to £90,000 - £99,999 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01764848
• Trading subsidiary: GROUNDWORK ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES (CHESHIRE) LTD Companies House 02156212

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Groundwork CLM (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.

• YU, Cirklen — director, appointed 03/07/2026on trustee list
• HAWKINS, Daniel George — director, appointed 03/07/2026on trustee list
• OWEN, Sean — director, appointed 03/07/2026on trustee list
• FLANAGAN, Brendan Gerard — director, appointed 21/03/2024on trustee list
• CONNOLLY, Angela Claire — director, appointed 17/03/2023on trustee list
• OMIDEYI, Omolola — director, appointed 10/12/2021not on trustee list
• REYNOLDS, Fiona — director, appointed 10/12/2021on trustee list
• BOOTH, Paul Andrew — director, appointed 10/12/2021on trustee list
• HARGREAVES, Philip John — director, appointed 08/03/2019on trustee list
• ROOTS, Paul — director, appointed 01/04/2015on trustee list
• FISHWICK, Tracy — director, appointed 01/04/2015on trustee list
• DARRON, Andrew — secretary, appointed 15/12/2016

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• TRACY FISHWICKchair
• Angela Connolly
• Brendan Flanagan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Cirklen Yu
• Daniel George Hawkins
• Fiona Reynolds
• Paul Booth
• Paul Roots · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip John Hargreaves
• Sean Owen
• Tolu Omideyi

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 GROUNDWORK WALES.

• GROUNDWORK WALES income £1.4m
• THE FEDERATION OF GROUNDWORK TRUSTS income £48.7m
• GROUNDWORK EAST income £2.5m
• GROUNDWORK GREATER MANCHESTER income £8.0m
• GROUNDWORK CAERPHILLY income £421k
• Groundwork South and North Tyneside Limited income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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