LEIGH MINERS WELFARE INSTITUTE

Registered charity 521139 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEIGH MINERS · filing overdue (register status)

Welfare Club hosting community activities such as Bingo, Bowling, U3A. A wide range of Community groups use our facilities such as Special Guardians, JIGSAW, British Heart Foundation and we hire function rooms out for Keep Fit, Parties, Meetings etc. We have a Rugby Section, Bowling Section, Darts & Doms and an Entertainment section for our members.

Objects

THE PROVISION OF A RECREATION GROUND AND WELFARE INSTITUTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS (AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, SUCH OF THE SAID INHABITANTS AS ARE MEMBERS OF THE MINING COMMUNITY) OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF LEIGH AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

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 · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £268,834, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining sufficient funds to cover 12 months of anticipated administration and support costs. The charity reported a net incoming resource surplus of £24,704 for the year, supported by income from room hires and an occupational licence from a connected trading company.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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 policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chris Garvin
• JOHN WALLS
• Mike Fairhurst
• ROY WALLS

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

Operates in: Wigan

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STAKEFORD AND BOMARSUND MINER'S WELFARE SCHEME.

• STAKEFORD AND BOMARSUND MINER'S WELFARE SCHEME income £108k
• HEANOR MINERS' WELFARE TRUST income £248k
• THE ARDLEIGH HOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £217k
• WHITEHAVEN SOCIAL WELFARE SCHEME income £121k
• HAWKINS COLLIERY RECREATION GROUND AND WELFARE CENTRE income £104k
• RYCROFT LEISURE income £340k

Side by side with its peers

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