Registered charity · Bolton
Bolton Wanderers Community Trust
Bolton Wanderers Community Trust is a registered charity (number 1090753) based in Bolton, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Dave Singleton. Latest income £1.5m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.
Also known as Bolton Wanderers in the Community (Charity Commission)
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...
- 10 trustees
- Income £1.5m (2025)
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Who leads it
- Dave SingletonChair
- Alan WalshTrustee · since 2017
- Bashir Jama AideedTrustee · since 2020
- John McginlayTrustee · since 2016
- Jonathan LordTrustee · since 2023
- Marie BissetTrustee · since 2017
- Norma RutherfordTrustee · since 2017
- Paul William Graham HollidayTrustee · since 2025
- Susan Mary JohnsonTrustee · since 2025
- William DawsonTrustee · since 2017
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 3 more
- Where
- Bolton, Lancashire
- Website
- www.bwct.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Bolton Wanderers Community Trust
- Registered
- 2002
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.5m£1.7m
- 2024£1.4m£1.5m
- 2023£1.4m£1.3m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.3m£1.3m
- 2021£1.0m£866k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
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.
Grants received
27 grants · £1,507,480 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,227,277 (13 grants)
- Sport England · £142,072 (8 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £80,000 (2 grants)
- Ministry of Defence · £19,804
- Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales · £18,000
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
10 trustees on the board
- Dave Singleton Chair
- Alan Walsh since 2017
- Bashir Jama Aideed since 2020
- John Mcginlay since 2016
- Jonathan Lord since 2023
- Marie Bisset since 2017
- Norma Rutherford since 2017
- Paul William Graham Holliday since 2025
- Susan Mary Johnson since 2025
- William Dawson since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- Alan Walsh since 2017
- Bashir Jama Aideed since 2020
- John Mcginlay since 2016
- Marie Bisset since 2017
- Norma Rutherford since 2017
- William Dawson since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Alan Walsh since 2017
- Bashir Jama Aideed since 2020
- John Mcginlay since 2016
- Jonathan Lord since 2023
- Marie Bisset since 2017
- Norma Rutherford since 2017
- Paul William Graham Holliday since 2025
- Susan Mary Johnson since 2025
- William Dawson since 2017
Portfolio (1)
- Dave Singleton Chair
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1090753
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15 NOVEMBER 2001 AS AMENDED BY WRITTEN RESOLUTION DATED 26 MAY 2010 AND REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 16 JULY 2010, AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 6 JULY 2010 as amended on 20 Oct 2021
- Companies House
- Company number 04323645 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01204673790 · enquiries@bwct.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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