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Walking With the Wounded

Walking With the Wounded is a registered charity (number 1153497) based in Manchester, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Dick Turpin since 2013. Latest income £5.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Wwtw (Charity Commission)

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £5.1m (2025)

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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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 3 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.walkingwiththewounded.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Walking With the Wounded
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.1m£5.5m
  • 2024£4.9m£5.2m
  • 2023£5.7m£5.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.7m£4.9m
  • 2021£5.0m£4.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 47%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE: 3.1.1 TO PROVIDE RESETTLEMENT ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF OF FINANCIAL AND OTHER CHARITABLE NEED FOR PERSONNEL WHO ARE LEAVING OR HAVE LEFT THE ARMED FORCES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN WOUNDED WHILST SERVING, INCLUDING BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, BY PROVIDING FUNDING FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO ASSIST THEM IN FINDING WORK AND JOBS AND TO ATTAIN THE SKILLS REQUIRED TO OBTAIN AND RETAIN WORK OUTSIDE THE ARMED FORCES. 3.1.2 TO PROVIDE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL AND OTHER CHARITABLE NEED FOR THE DEPENDANTS OF SUCH PERSONS. 3.1.3 THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION OF CURRENT AND FORMER SERVICE PERSONNEL, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION OF THE UK, WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY OR PARTS OF SOCIETY AS A RESULT OF BEING WOUNDED WHILST SERVING, IN PARTICULAR BY: (A) PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND RAISING AWARENESS OF I) THEIR CAPABILITIES NOTWITHSTANDING THEIR INJURIES AND II) THE SPECIAL HEALTH, FINANCIAL, EDUCATIONAL, SOCIAL AND EMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS FACED BY THEM; AND (B) PROVIDING THEM WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO BUILD CAPACITY BY PARTICIPATING IN EXPEDITIONS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES TO RELIEVE THEIR NEEDS AND TO ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.

Grants received

71 grants · £3,391,738 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

Most recent

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

6.7y median 6.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 10Education/training 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10

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

Professional services 11Retail and trade 3Tech and media 2

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.

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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£5.1m 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.

3.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

83 from 58 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1153497
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17/07/2013AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 08/08/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 08 OCT 2016
Companies House
Company number 08612989 · Active
Contact on the register
033 00 585 800 · info@wwtw.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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