Registered charity · Northwich
The Booth Charities
- 10 trustees
- Income £1.8m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- William Thomas WhittleChair
- Andrew MorrisTrustee · since 2023
- James Herbert TullyTrustee · since 2019
- John Christensen Willis CBETrustee
- Mary-Liz WalkerTrustee · since 2025
- Patrick LoftusTrustee · since 2018
- Philip Charles OkellTrustee · since 2015
- Richard FildesTrustee · since 2011
- Richard Peter KershawTrustee
- Stephen Bentley CheshireTrustee · since 2021
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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 3 more
- Where
- Salford City, Lancashire
- Registered
- 1963
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.8m£2.1m
- 2024£1.8m£1.6m
- 2023£1.7m£1.8m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.6m£1.0m
- 2021£1.5m£1.0m
Charitable objects
(1) THE RELIEF OF THE AGED, IMPOTENT OR POOR INHABITANTS INCLUDING THE PAYMENT OF PENSIONS TO AND THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR INHABITANTS WITH A PREFERENCE FOR SUCH POOR INHABITANTS WHO ARE OVER 60 YEARS OF AGE;(2) THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS AND SICKNESS AMONG THE INHABITANTS (3) THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT (WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE INHABITANTS IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE) OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION;(4) THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE INHABITANTS;(5) ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES (WHETHER OR NOT OF A NATURE SIMILAR TO ANY OF THOSE HEREINBEFORE SPECIFIED) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS.
Board analysis for researchers
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
- William Thomas Whittle Chair
- Andrew Morris since 2023
- John Christensen Willis CBE
- James Herbert Tully since 2019
- Mary-Liz Walker since 2025
- Philip Charles Okell since 2015
- Patrick Loftus since 2018
- Richard Fildes since 2011
- Richard Peter Kershaw
- Stephen Bentley Cheshire since 2021
Trustees past 6 years
- James Herbert Tully since 2019
- Philip Charles Okell since 2015
- Patrick Loftus since 2018
- Richard Fildes since 2011
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- William Thomas Whittle Chair
- Andrew Morris since 2023
- Philip Charles Okell since 2015
- Patrick Loftus since 2018
- Richard Fildes since 2011
Portfolio (5)
- John Christensen Willis CBE
- James Herbert Tully since 2019
- Mary-Liz Walker since 2025
- Richard Peter Kershaw
- Stephen Bentley Cheshire 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.
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
10.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 120.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 221800
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEME OF THE 10 DECEMBER 1985 CONFIRMED BY THE CHARITIES (BOOTH CHARITIES) ORDER 1985 AS VARIED BY A SCHEME OF THE 15 FEBRUARY 1994 AS AMENDED BY SEALED SCHEME DATED 24 NOVEMBER 1995
- Contact on the register
- 01606334309 · jaldersley@butcher-barlow.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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