Registered charity · Wigan
Wigan Town Relief in Need Charity
Wigan Town Relief in Need Charity is a registered charity (number 248976) based in Wigan, governed by 7 trustees and chaired by Zena D'Souza. Latest income £17k (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 11th October 2026.
- 7 trustees
- Income £17k (2024)
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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
- General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Wigan
- Registered
- 1979
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£17k£8k
- 2023£18k£9k
- 2022£15k£1k
Earlier years
- 2021£14k£1k
- 2020£13k£3k
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Zena D'Souza Chair
- Graham Hart since 2019
- Kathryn Anthon since 2015
- Lynn Prescott since 2017
- Rev Samantha Louise Nicholson
- Stanley Higginson since 2017
- Susan Hardy since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Graham Hart since 2019
- Kathryn Anthon since 2015
- Lynn Prescott since 2017
- Stanley Higginson since 2017
- Susan Hardy since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Zena D'Souza Chair
- Graham Hart since 2019
- Kathryn Anthon since 2015
- Lynn Prescott since 2017
- Rev Samantha Louise Nicholson
- Stanley Higginson since 2017
- Susan Hardy since 2019
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- Narrow spread of causes across 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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 248976
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEME OF 26 MARCH 1979
- Contact on the register
- 01942246241
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 11th October 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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