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Groundwork Cheshire Lancashire & Merseyside

Registered charity 514727 Registered since 1984

Operates: Throughout England

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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.

11 trustees on the board

4.5y median 5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

7
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 11Amateur Sport 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10Economic/community Development/employment 1Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Professional services 10Education 2Other services 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£6.9m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

93 from 86 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.
32%
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.groundwork.org.uk/clm
Emailclm@groundwork.org.uk
Phone01942821444
Address74-80 HALLGATE, WIGAN, LANCS, WN1 1HP

Finances

£6,884,300 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£3,840,405£3,605,480
2022£5,291,707£4,935,912
2023£4,960,095£4,956,892
2024£5,423,496£5,163,974
2025£6,884,300£6,362,670

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesAmateur SportEnvironment/conservation/heritageEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesOther Charities Or Voluntary BodiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

The objects of the Company are:2.1 to promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical nature and social environment in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, the Borough of Blackpool and the Boroughs of Chorley, Lancaster, Preston, Fylde, Wyre, South Ribble and West Lancashire in the County of Lancashire, and Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester and the local authority areas of Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Liverpool and Wirral, and other such areas as the Trustees shall in their absolute discretion determine from time to time (“the Area of Benefit”);2.2 to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for those living or working or resorting to the Area of Benefit;2.3 to advance public education in environmental matters and other ways of better conserving, protecting and improving the same wheresoever;2.4 to promote, for the public benefit, urban and rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation in the Area of Benefit by:2.4.1 the relief of poverty in such ways as may be thought fit;2.4.2 the relief of unemployment in such ways as may be thought fit including assistance to find employment;2.4.3 the advancement of education, training or re-training particularly amongst unemployed people and providing unemployed people with work experience;2.4.4 the provision of financial assistance, technical assistance, or business advice or consultancy in order to provide training and employment opportunities for unemployed people in cases of financial or other charitable need through help:(a) in setting up their own business; or(b) to existing businesses;2.4.5 the creation of training and employment opportunities by the provision of work space, buildings and/or land for use on favourable terms;2.4.6 the provision of housing for those who are in conditions of need and the improvement of housing in the public sector or in charitable ownership provided that such power shall not extend to relieving any local authorities or other bodies of a statutory duty to provide or improve housing;2.4.7 the maintenance, improvement or provision of public amenities;2.4.8 the preservation of buildings or sites of historic or architectural importance;2.4.9 the provision or assistance in the provision of recreational facilities for the public at large and/or those who, by reasons of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances, have need of such facilities; 2.4.10 the protection or conservation of the environment;2.4.11 the provision of public health facilities and child care;2.4.12 the promotion of public safety and prevention of crime; and2.4.13 such other means as may from time to time be determined subject to the prior written consent of the Charity Commission for England and Wales;2.5 to promote sustainable development for the benefit of the public by:2.5.1 the preservation, conservation and the protection of the environment and the prudent use of resources;2.5.2 the relief of poverty and the improvement of the conditions of life in socially and economically disadvantaged communities; and2.5.3 the promotion of sustainable means of achieving economic and social growth and regeneration;2.6 to advance the education of the public in subjects relating to sustainable development and the protection, enhancement and rehabilitation of the environment and to promote study and research in such subjects provided that the useful results of such study are disseminated to the public at large;“sustainable development” in this Article and in Article 3.5 above means “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”2.7 to promote the efficiency and effectiveness of charities in the direct furtherance of their objects (or any one of them) by the provision of information, advice and assistance in the establishment, administration and management of such charities including assistance of all types in connection with the raising and distribution of funds; and2.8 to promote the efficiency and effectiveness of the voluntary sector for the benefit of the public by provision of information support and advice to local community based groups to conserve protect and improve the physical and natural environment anywhere in the United Kingdom.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/10/1983AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/06/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/04/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/12/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 13/03/2015 as amended on 14 Mar 2025

Trustees (11)

11trustees
62median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Groundwork Cheshire, Lancashire & Merseyside · 01764848 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 26/10/1983

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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