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Registered charity · Wigan

Wigan and Leigh Hospice

Wigan and Leigh Hospice is a registered charity (number 513400) based in Wigan, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by Dr Sheila Fisher since 2020. Latest income £7.2m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £7.2m (2025)
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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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Wigan
Website
www.wlh.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wigan and Leigh Hospice
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.2m£7.0m
  • 2024£6.4m£6.4m
  • 2023£5.3m£6.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.1m£5.4m
  • 2021£6.0m£5.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 45% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ILLNESS AND SUFFERING IN SUCH CHARITABLE WAYS AS THE ASSOCIATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE METROPOLITAN COUNTY OF GREATER MANCHESTER THE COUNTIES OF MERSEYSIDE LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE AND ADJACENT AREAS.

Grants received

14 grants · £366,439 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.

12 trustees on the board

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

11
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11Education/training 3Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Health and social care 12Education 4Hospitality 2

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 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£7.2m latest income
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.

15.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 11.2 in 2021

119 from 121 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.
47%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
513400
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 NOVEMBER 1982 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 30 APRIL 1996 AND 19 APRIL 2005
Companies House
Company number 01677155 · Active
Contact on the register
01942525566 · enquiries@wlh.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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