THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION NORTH WEST ENGLAND

Registered charity 521654 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GIRLGUIDING-NORTH WEST ENGLAND, NORTH WEST REGION OF ENGLAND GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION, THE GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION NORTH WEST ENGLAND

Girlguiding North West England enables girls and young women to develop their potential through supporting and valuing its leaders. Our vision is to widen and increase our membership to enable all girls and young women to have the opportunity to develop their potential through guiding.

Objects

UNIT OF THE GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION

Area of benefit: PRESTON

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £1,127,640 for the year ended 31 December 2025. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at the equivalent of 6 months' operating costs, which is above the trustees' target of between three and six months' expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

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

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Girlguiding North West England (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% 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: 12.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rona Rommelchair
• Anamika Paul
• Angela York · trustee of 2 other charities
• Geoff Abram
• Jill White
• Laura Keller · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Barker
• Sally Tolley
• Shree Patel
• Tracey Johnson

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTH EAST ENGLAND GUIDE ASSOCIATION.

• NORTH EAST ENGLAND GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £586k
• WORCESTERSHIRE GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £198k
• HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY GUIDES ASSOCIATION income £248k
• THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION LONDON AND SOUTH EAST ENGLAND REGION income £1.2m
• WARWICKSHIRE GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £190k
• GUIDE ASSOCIATION BUCKINGHAMSHIRE income £228k

Side by side with its peers

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