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Embrace Wigan & Leigh

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1082663
Status
Registered
Registered
Sept. 28, 2000
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
Wigan & Leigh (or In The Event Of Any Local Government Re-Organisaion In An Equivalent Area)

Address

Address
Embrace Wigan & Leigh
81 Ribble Road
Platt Bridge
WIGAN
Lancashire
WN2 5EG

Activities

To promote the care, welfare, interest, treatment, education and advancement in primarily the Wigan and Leigh area and surrounding districts of people with any form of disability, their families and carers and to provide information, advice, support and personal advocacy.

Objects: The objects of the Charity are for the public benefit: • The relief of those in need because of disability or physical or mental ill-health, including (but not limited to) by the provision of support, advice and information to persons experiencing disability or ill-health and their families and carers; and• The promotion of social inclusion by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. For the purpose of this clause ‘socially excluded’ includes being excluded from society, or parts of society, because of one of more of the following factors: disability, old age, ill health (physical or mental), financial hardship, discrimination or relationship or family breakdown.

Classification

How
Provides Human Resources, Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information
What
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Who
People With Disabilities

Areas of operation

Local Authority
Lancashire, Sheffield City, Wigan

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees
Feb. 28, 2025 £782,886 £800,937 £536,133 27
Feb. 29, 2024 £727,118 £681,132 £554,184 25
Feb. 28, 2023 £570,548 £554,250 £508,197 26
Feb. 28, 2022 £502,838 £529,188 £491,899 18
Feb. 28, 2021 £586,487 £493,685 £518,250 23

Trustees

Name Appointed
Joanne Barrow (Chair)
Barend Philip Anthon June 20, 2024
Martin John Mellor April 2, 2025
Michael Charles Hassall July 22, 2022
Sheila Marie Robinson Jan. 30, 2018
Tiffany Parsons Jan. 28, 2026