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Registered charity · Wilmslow

The Guild for Lifelong Learning Limited

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £599k (2025)
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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Recreation
Where
Stockport, Cheshire East
Website
www.guildlifelonglearning.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Guild for Lifelong Learning Limited
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£599k£580k
  • 2024£544k£560k
  • 2023£509k£518k
Earlier years
  • 2022£374k£444k
  • 2021£306k£390k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A)TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF WILMSLOW AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD TOGETHER DEFINED BY THE AREAS KNOWN AS WILMSLOW AND HANDFORTH AND THE CIVIL PARISHES OF ALDERLEY EDGE,CHORLEY AND MOTTRAM ST ANDREW,WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX,SEXUAL ORIENTATION,RACE OR POLITICAL,RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS,BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES,VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS;B)TO ESTABLISH,OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME(WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY)IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS;AND(C)TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES THAT ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED BY THE TRUSTEES.

Grants received

5 grants · £32,081 total

360Giving 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

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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.

6 trustees on the board

5.5y median 5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
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 6General Charitable Purposes 6Recreation 6

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

Education 7Business services 3Health and social care 1

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.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£599k latest income
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.

8.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 9.0 in 2021

35 from 31 in 2023
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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1151387
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14/12/2012 AS AMENDED ON 05 JAN 2021AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 MAR 2021
Companies House
Company number 08331345 · Active
Contact on the register
01625523903 · charitysupport@guildlifelonglearning.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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