Finance Score: 3

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 3

Poor Liquidity: -1
Reasonable growth: +1
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 9

BOLTON WANDERERS COMMUNITY TRUST

The Charity operates: to promote community participation in healthy recreation; to provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation or other leisure time occupation of such persons who have need for such facilities; and to advance the education of the public.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

Established: 22 years

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Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
30/06/23	£1,424	£1,329	£96	£25	£434	£128	1.2	54	20
30/06/22	£1,268	£1,292	£-24	£6	£339	£114	1.1	55	28
30/06/21	£1,013	£866	£147	£5	£363	£75	1	42	8
30/06/20	£816	£935	£-118	£5	£216	£33	0.4	46	32
30/06/19	£1,023	£982	£41	£10	£335	£97	1.2	45	17
30/06/18	£821	£845	£-23	£3	£293	£77	1.1	43	0
30/06/17	£856	£747	£109	£0	£316	£58	0.9	23	0
30/06/16	£778	£702	£77	£0	£207	£50	0.9	21	0
30/06/15	£772	£656	£116	£12	£131	£16	0.3	19	0
30/06/14	£717	£705	£13	£11	£15	£4	0.1	20	0
30/06/13	£690	£659	£32	£12	£2	£2	0	22	0
30/06/12	£532	£513	£19	£12	£-28	£-28	-0.7	21	0
30/06/11	£437	£426	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/10?	£237	£234	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09	£348	£467	£-118	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08	£418	£477	£-60	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07	£367	£435	£-68	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06	£343	£387	£-44	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05	£212	£245	£-33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04	£241	£242	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 21%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 29%
Reserves/Spending: 1.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.4

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Bolton, Lancashire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

54 employees
20 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,931	28/08/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Bolton CVS - Grant to Bolton Wanderers Community Trust
£4,967	01/12/2019	Increase levels of physical activity for children and families.
Bolton CVS - Grant to Bolton Wanderers Community Trust
£2,526	03/01/2019	To deliver a Sports Leaders Course.
Bolton CVS - Grant to Bolton Wanderers Community Trust - Unity Alliance
£200,000	03/01/2019	To develop the Unity Alliance - an alliance of Bolton based organisations to deliver social mixing and community cohesion work across Bolton.
Ministry of Defence - ALB - Armed forces Covenant Fund Trust- Covenent Fund
£19,804	01/04/2018	Armed Forces Covenant Local Grants for local projects that support community integration or local delivery of services.
National Lottery Community Fund - Positive Chances
£7,400	27/03/2018 12	The funding will be used to support children who are at risk of going into care or are vulnerable. The project will give them the opportunity to take part in a range of positive activities including ....more The funding will be used to support children who are at risk of going into care or are vulnerable. The project will give them the opportunity to take part in a range of positive activities including horse riding, fishing, kayaking, raft building and trampolining. The group aims to develop young people’s confidence and ability to work as part of a team.
National Lottery Community Fund - Positive Chances for Looked After Children
£143,000	03/11/2014 36	Not Available
Sport England - Inspire Bolton
£98,850	21/05/2014	Funding under Sport England's Inclusive Sport funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Inspire Bolton'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
National Lottery Community Fund - Inside Out Project
£435,824	27/03/2014 60	This is a new project to reduce levels of youth offending amongst 18-24 year olds through delivery of a targeted programme which has been developed in consultation with key services such as the ....more This is a new project to reduce levels of youth offending amongst 18-24 year olds through delivery of a targeted programme which has been developed in consultation with key services such as the Greater Manchester Probation Trust and will give young people much needed support that is currently lacking._x000B_
Sport England - Get Equipped- Multi Sport in Bolton
£8,098	10/03/2014	Funding under Sport England's Get Equipped funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Get Equipped- Multi Sport in Bolton'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries ....more Funding under Sport England's Get Equipped funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Get Equipped- Multi Sport in Bolton'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Sport England - Girls Bowled Out!
£9,838	12/09/2013	Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Girls Bowled Out!'. This project is a Cricket project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Bolton Wanderers Community Trust
£18,000	25/08/2011	the sessional staff of the Kickz Project including facilities, travel, extra activity coach, kit, equipment and education
Sport England - Premier League 4 Sport
£7,000	11/08/2011	Funding under Sport England's Sportsmatch funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Premier League 4 Sport'. This project lists its main activity as Table Tennis.
Sport England - The table tennis primary school project
£9,500	07/06/2011	Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'The table tennis primary school project'. This project lists its main activity as Table Tennis.
National Lottery Community Fund - Positive Chances
£114,000	12/10/2010 36	This project works with young people who are in care or just leaving care aged between 5 - 19 years living in Bolton._x000B_The project will focus on three strands; physical sports activities, a ....more This project works with young people who are in care or just leaving care aged between 5 - 19 years living in Bolton._x000B_The project will focus on three strands; physical sports activities, a study support programme and team building activities.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 44-73

BASHIR JAMA AIDEED Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Charity Worker

JONATHAN LORD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired

NEIL ALAN HART Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Ceo

WILLIAM HENRY CHARLES WEBSTER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: College Principal

ALAN WALSH Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Coroner

JOHN MCGINLAY Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Former Footballer

MARIE BISSET Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Head Of Service - Public Health

NORMA RUTHERFORD Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired

WILLIAM DAWSON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired

DAVE SINGLETON (Chair) Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeships: BOLTON LADS AND GIRLS CLUB LIMITED, BOLTON COMMUNITY LEISURE,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/02/2002, number: 1090753
Registered at Companies House on 15/11/2001, number: 04323645

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
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

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from NATIONAL SCHOOL on 27/01/2021

Main office

BOLTON WANDERERS FOOTBALL CLUB
Toughsheet Community Stadium
LOSTOCK
BOLTON
BL6 6JW

Objectives

OBJECTS3 The Charity’s objects (“the Objects”) are for the benefit of the public generally and in particular (but without limitation) children and young people in the Greater Manchester, Lancashire and surrounding areas:-3.1 to promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of association football and other sports capable of improving health (“facilities” in this Article 3 means land, buildings, equipment and organising sporting activities);3.2 to provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation or other leisure time occupation of such persons who have need for such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, 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; 3.3 to promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. (For the purpose of this clause ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or part of society, as a result of being a member of a socially and economically deprived community.”)3.4 “to develop the capacity and skills of the members of the socially and economically disadvantaged community of Bolton in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society”.3.5 The promotion of equality and diversity for the public benefit by (a) the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religion;(b) advancing education and raising awareness in equality and diversity;(c) promoting activities to foster understanding between people from diverse backgrounds;(d) cultivating a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity.3.6 to advance the education of the public through such means as the trustees think fit in accordance with the law of charity; and3.7 for the general purposes of such charitable bodies or for such other exclusively charitable purposes in each case as the trustees may from time to time decide.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER MANCHESTER, LANCASHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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