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Registered charity · Leigh

Citizens Advice Service in the Borough of Wigan

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £892k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and more
Website
www.cawb.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Citizens Advice Service in the Borough of Wigan
Registered
1989

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£892k£884k
  • 2024£1000k£1.0m
  • 2023£982k£1.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£1.0m
  • 2021£1.1m£1.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 54%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE BOROUGH OF WIGAN AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Grants received

5 grants · £620,537 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002018-08-30
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £336,6182013-04-19
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002011-02-25
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £206,3192004-05-04
  • Northern Rock Foundation £57,6001999-02-09
Board analysis for researchers

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

2y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

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

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 11General 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.

Other services 11Health and social care 2Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • 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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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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£892k 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.

4.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 3.8 in 2021

29 from 42 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
701882
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 MARCH 1989 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 4 JULY 1996.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 04/06/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/11/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 21 OCT 2022
Companies House
Company number 02366214 · Active
Contact on the register
01942709709 · headoffice@cawb.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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