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Registered charity (CIO) · Wigan

Wigan Heritage and Arts Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £0 (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 4 organisations acting as trustee: Ian Owen, Martin Green, Maxine Mealey, Natalie Geraghty.

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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Registered
2023

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£0£0
  • 2024£0£0

Income trend, 2024 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS: TO PROMOTE SUCH PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CIO SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS AND CULTURE BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO SUPPORT ACTIVITIES WHICH ENCOURAGE WIDE PARTICIPATION IN ARTS AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING THEATRES AND VISUAL ARTS VENUES;3.2 THE PRESERVATION, PROTECTION, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF BUILDINGS OF HISTORIC OR ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST; AND3.3 PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR BY PROVIDING FACILITIES AND SUPPORT (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, FINANCIAL SUPPORT).

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.

2 trustees on the board

  • Gary Speakman since 2025
  • Ian Owen since 2025
  • Martin Green since 2025
  • Maxine Mealey since 2025
  • Natalie Geraghty since 2025
  • Nigel Finch since 2026
0.5y median 0.5y
average tenure
1y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
31.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (1)

Portfolio (1)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 2Economic/community Development/employment 2General Charitable Purposes 2

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

Business services 5Arts and leisure 2Construction 1

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 2 years.
2024
2025
incomespending

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1203551
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 14 Jun 2023
Contact on the register
01942929453 · hello@wha-trust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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