The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Bolton Wanderers Community Trust

Registered charity 1090753 Registered since 2002

Operates: Bolton, Lancashire

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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

6.3y median 9y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 10General Charitable Purposes 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9Amateur Sport 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 12Construction 4Education 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.5m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.0 in 2021

59 from 42 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.bwct.org.uk
Emailenquiries@bwct.org.uk
Phone01204673790
AddressBOLTON WANDERERS FOOTBALL CLUB, Toughsheet Community Stadium, LOSTOCK, BOLTON, BL6 6JW

Finances

£1,526,891 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,012,879£866,261
2022£1,268,242£1,292,444
2023£1,424,186£1,328,524
2024£1,401,382£1,458,566
2025£1,526,891£1,712,828

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/trainingThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesDisabilityAmateur SportEconomic/community Development/employmentOther Charitable Purposes

Who

Children/young PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesPeople Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial OriginOther Charities Or Voluntary BodiesOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationOther Charitable Activities

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.

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

Trustees (10)

10trustees
63median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Bolton Wanderers Community Trust · 04323645 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 15/11/2001

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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