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Wigan and Leigh Hospice

Registered charity 513400 Registered since 1982

Operates: Wigan

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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

10.4y
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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.wlh.org.uk
Emailenquiries@wlh.org.uk
Phone01942525566
AddressWIGAN & LEIGH HOSPICE, KILDARE STREET, HINDLEY, WIGAN, WN2 3HZ

Finances

£7,236,980 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£5,965,117£5,174,231
2022£6,091,430£5,448,054
2023£5,265,836£5,951,420
2024£6,401,279£6,420,731
2025£7,236,980£7,044,906

What it does

What

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

Who

Elderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes Research

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.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 NOVEMBER 1982 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 30 APRIL 1996 AND 19 APRIL 2005

Trustees (12)

12trustees
62median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Wigan and Leigh Hospice · 01677155 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 10/11/1982

4 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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