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Registered charity · Northwich

Petty Pool

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £4.1m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability
Where
Manchester City, Wirral, Cheshire East, Halton and more
Website
www.pettypool.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Petty Pool
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.1m£4.1m
  • 2024£3.6m£3.7m
  • 2023£3.0m£3.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.7m£2.7m
  • 2021£2.5m£2.4m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY, WHICH ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:(1) TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN YOUNG PEOPLE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, INCLUDING VOCATIONAL AND BASIC SKILLS, PERSONAL COMPETENCIES AND PREPARING THEM FOR POSSIBLE EMPLOYMENT/PLACEMENT, AND ENCOURAGING INDEPENDENT LIVING;(2) PROMOTE THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF CHALLENGING ACTIVITIES WITHIN A RESIDENTIAL SETTING(3) ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE ACCORDING TO THE LAW IN ENGLAND AND WALES WHICH SHALL BE SELECTED BY THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME.

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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.

5 trustees on the board

5y median 5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 5Education/training 5Recreation 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.

Education 8Agriculture 1Other services 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£4.1m 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.

1.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.2 in 2021

124 from 69 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
1174082
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13 MAY 2017
Companies House
Company number 10410072 · Active
Contact on the register
01606889097 · janet.thorpe@pettypool.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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