Registered charity · Bolton
Bolton Community Leisure
- 8 trustees
- Income £6.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Amateur Sport
- Where
- Bolton
- Linked company
- Bolton Community Leisure Limited
- Registered
- 2006
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£6.3m£6.9m
- 2024£6.3m£6.4m
- 2023£7.5m£7.5m
Earlier years
- 2021£4.8m£4.9m
- 2020£4.5m£4.6m
Income trend, 2020 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 28%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
1) TO PROVIDE OR TO ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR RECREATION PHYSICAL EDUCATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THOSE LIVING AND WORKING IN THE BOROUGH OF BOLTON AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS SUCH FACILITIES BEING PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SUB-PARAGRAPHS OF THIS SUB-CLAUSE NAMELY:-I) THE FACILITIES TO BE PROVIDED SHALL BE FACILITIES AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE SAVE THAT SPECIAL FACILITIES MAY BE PROVIDED FOR PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES MAY HAVE NEED OF THEMII) WHILE THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED ARE THE COMMUNITY OF THE BOROUGH OF BOLTON AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD THE USE OF SUCH FACILITIES MAY BE EXTENDED TO OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO DESIRE TO AND CAN CONVENIENTLY MAKE USE OF THEMIII) IN THIS SUB-CLAUSE THE EXPRESSION "PROVIDING FACILITIES" INCLUDES NOT ONLY THE PROVISION OF LAND BUILDINGS EQUIPMENT AND OTHER PHYSICAL FACILITIES BUT ALSO THE ORGANISATION OF RECREATIONAL PHYSICAL EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OR (WHERE REQUIRED) OF THE SPECIAL CLASSES OF PERSONS MENTIONED IN SUB-PARAGRAPH (II) OF THIS SUB-CLAUSEIV) THE FACILITIES PROVIDED SHALL BE SUCH AS WILL FURTHER THE SOCIAL WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE BOROUGH OF BOLTON AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD BY IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THAT COMMUNITY AND2) TO EDUCATE AND ASSIST YOUNG PERSONS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE BOROUGH OF BOLTON AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT OBJECT TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AT THE FACILITIES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE CHARITY LECTURES CLASSES AND TRAINING AND COACHING FACILITIES
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.
8 trustees on the board
- David Singleton Chair since 2012
- BOB Atkinson
- Dr Margaret Anne Talbot since 2016
- Hilary Constance Fairclough since 2021
- Inayat Omaraji
- John Byrne since 2014
- John Kirk Shepley since 2013
- Sara Louise Sharrock since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- David Singleton Chair since 2012
- Dr Margaret Anne Talbot since 2016
- John Byrne since 2014
- John Kirk Shepley since 2013
- Sara Louise Sharrock since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- BOB Atkinson
- Dr Margaret Anne Talbot since 2016
- Inayat Omaraji
- John Byrne since 2014
- John Kirk Shepley since 2013
- Sara Louise Sharrock since 2017
Portfolio (2)
- David Singleton Chair since 2012
- Hilary Constance Fairclough since 2021
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: 3.7 months · was 0.7 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1117186
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 2 DECEMBER 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 13 NOVEMBER 2006
- Companies House
- Company number 04982682 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01204331608
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 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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