Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 10

Poor Liquidity: -1
Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 15

INSPIRING HEALTHY LIFESTYLES

Advancement and support of education, culture, arts, heritage and history; provision or assistance in the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupations and public cemeteries and crematoria;the promotion and preservation of good health through community participation in healthy recreation;any other charitable purposes as determined by the Trustees.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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 and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 20 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
31/03/23		£8,899	£11,576	£-2,676	£50	£4,682	£2,143	2.2	268	0
31/03/22		£13,442	£9,784	£3,657	£52	£4,543	£1,928	2.4	218	0
31/03/21		£17,257	£19,111	£-1,853	£0	£-1,699	£-4,449	-2.8	538	0
31/03/20		£24,206	£24,939	£-734	£44	£7,295	£4,999	2.4	637	200
31/03/19		£24,117	£24,215	£-98	£0	£1,677	£-742	-0.4	569	300
31/03/18		£22,807	£23,375	£-568	£0	£5,195	£2,875	1.5	566	0
31/03/17		£21,709	£21,707	£2	£1,254	£3,425	£1,108	0.6	541	0
31/03/16	*	£20,869	£21,382	£-513	£1,065	£-655	£-2,905	-1.6	407	0
31/03/15		£29,270	£27,097	£2,173	£4,533	£-6,721	£-9,222	-4.1	540	0
31/03/14		£30,707	£30,791	£-83	£4,475	£-2,520	£-5,034	-2	611	0
31/03/13		£32,307	£33,004	£-698	£4,167	£-7,195	£-9,849	-3.6	649	0
31/03/12		£33,641	£31,808	£1,833	£4,410	£-1,708	£-4,187	-1.6	531	0
31/03/11		£34,292	£34,859	£-566	£5,165	£3,967	£3,061	1.1	665	0
31/03/10		£35,226	£34,950	£276	£4,998	£-23,017	£-23,884	-8.2	747	0
31/03/09		£32,038	£32,173	£-135	£5,041	£-2,449	£-3,342	-1.2	732	0
31/03/08		£30,925	£30,665	£260	£4,896	£3,156	£2,402	0.9	682	0
31/03/07		£28,938	£29,474	£-536	£4,542	£-1,372	£-2,066	-0.8	691	0
31/03/06		£23,447	£25,566	£-2,119	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£22,275	£21,769	£506	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 38%
Liabilities/Income: 27%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 46%
Reserves/Spending: 2.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.3

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes
Recreation
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

North Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Wigan,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

268 employees

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Heritage Fund	£343,120
DCMS	£81,277
Sport England	£41,900
National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Cannock Chase Knits Together
£10,000	09/06/2023	The funding will be used to deliver a new initiative that will ‘knit the community together. The project aims to reduce loneliness and isolation.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Inspiring Healthy Lifestyles
£87,120	25/05/2023	#DYC Connecting Collections
DCMS - Museum Estate and Development fund
£71,688	09/02/2022	This is an open-access capital fund targeted at non-national Accredited museums and local authorities based in England to apply for funding to undertake vital infrastructure and urgent maintenance ....more This is an open-access capital fund targeted at non-national Accredited museums and local authorities based in England to apply for funding to undertake vital infrastructure and urgent maintenance backlogs which are beyond the scope of day-to-day maintenance budgets.
Sport England - TGC CF - Doorstep do-able
£9,100	22/12/2020 11	This project will empower women to be active in their doorstep green spaces through a beginner's running and park fitness group.
Sport England - COVID-19 Innovative Solution
£32,800	26/10/2020 6	Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Innovative Solutions funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 Innovative Solution. This project is a Exercise & Fitness project, with a focus ....more Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Innovative Solutions funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 Innovative Solution. This project is a Exercise & Fitness project, with a focus on older beneficiaries.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,589	25/09/2020	"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."
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Wigan Leisure & Culture Trust
£256,000	05/03/2020	Haigh Woodland Park: Heritage, Nature and People Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Chase Up
£416,595	28/09/2018 60	This project will repurpose unused land to create positive places where the community can come together. This will benefit almost 4,000 people by delivering community activities at the new and ....more This project will repurpose unused land to create positive places where the community can come together. This will benefit almost 4,000 people by delivering community activities at the new and improved spaces, such as gardening workshops, dog-walking groups, bug hunts and cycle safaris. Local groups will be formed so the local community steer what activities are held. This will help reduce anti-social behaviour, whilst improving people's wellbeing.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Museum of Cannock Chase
£10,000	28/10/2016	Hidden Heritage of Hednesford Hills
Sport England - Wigan Walking Football League
£6,054	04/08/2015	Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Wigan Walking Football League'. This project is a Association Footballproject, with a focus on older ....more Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Wigan Walking Football League'. This project is a Association Footballproject, with a focus on older beneficiaries.
Sport England - Park Workout
£31,021	05/01/2015 10	Funding under Sport England's Make Your Move funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Park Workout'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to WLCT
£37,200	02/09/2014	A Potter's Tale: Everyday Wigan life told through fragments of history
Sport England - MyFamilyFitness
£34,400	22/05/2014	Funding under Sport England's Make Your Move funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'MyFamilyFitness'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-66

CATHERINE JANE WILKS Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Senior Data Assurance Manager

DARREN JAMES WOOD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Senior Product Lead

JOANNE GREEN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior Data Manager

LOUISE PEACE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Business Solutions

PAUL GRAHAM FARRINGTON Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Chartered Accountant, Other trusteeship: WIGAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB,

PETER BURT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

REBECCA ANNE BOOCOCK Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Delivery

STEPHEN JOHN GAMBLES Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Human Resouces

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/08/2004, number: 1105278
Registered at Companies House on 23/12/2002, number: 04624607

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

19 returns made; AR16: 1 days late,

Main office

Inspiring Healthy Lifestyles
Unity House
Westwood Park
Wigan
WN3 4HE

Objectives

THE COMPANY HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES:3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT AND SUPPORT OF EDUCATION, CULTURE, ARTS, HERITAGE AND HISTORY INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, LEARNING AND INFORMATION CENTRES, ARCHIVES AND OTHER RELATED SERVICES; AND/OR3.2 THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE SUCH FACILITIES BEING PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE SAVE THAT SPECIAL FACILITIES MAY BE PROVIDED TO PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES MAY HAVE NEED OF SPECIAL FACILITIES AND SERVICES; AND/OR3.3 THE PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION; AND/OR3.4 THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC CEMETERIES AND/OR CREMATORIA AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SAME FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; AND/OR3.5 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE (THE OBJECTS).

Defined Area of Benefit:

WIGAN, GREATER MANCHESTER

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