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Registered charity · Bolton

Salesians of DON Bosco UK

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities
Where
Wandsworth, Bolton, Sefton, Cheshire East and more
Website
www.salesians.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£15m
  • 2024£14m£15m
  • 2023£14m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2022£14m£13m
  • 2021£4.0m£3.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO APPLY THE CAPITAL OR INCOME OF THE CHARITY FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS SHALL ADVANCE THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THE PROVINCE OF THE SOCIETY OF THE SALESIANS OF DON BOSCO, WHICH INCLUDES ENGLAND AS THE TRUSTEES WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE PROVINCIAL SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND IF AT ANY TIME THE SOCIETY SHALL CEASE TO CARRY ON RELIGIOUS OR OTHER CHARITABLE WORK IN SUCH PROVINCE THEN FOR SUCH OTHER LAWFUL CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE

Grants received

1 grant · £45,000 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.

3y median 2y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

0
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 5Overseas Aid/famine Relief 5Amateur Sport 1Religious Activities 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£14.0m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

5.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 24.1 in 2020

135
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
233779
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS DATED 1ST AUGUST 2003 [REPLACED TRUST DEED DATED 7 MARCH 1964] AND AMENDED 16 NOVEMBER 2007 AND 11 JANUARY 2008.
Contact on the register
01204600720 · ECONOMER@SALESIANS.ORG.UK
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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