# BOLTON WANDERERS COMMUNITY TRUST

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1090753
- **Other names:** BOLTON WANDERERS FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY SCHEME, Bolton Wanderers in the Community
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** Feb. 21, 2002
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1090753


## Contact

- **Address:** BOLTON WANDERERS FOOTBALL CLUB, Toughsheet Community Stadium, LOSTOCK, BOLTON
- **Postcode:** BL6 6JW
- **Phone:** 01204673790
- **Email:** enquiries@bwct.org.uk
- **Website:** www.bwct.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** OBJECTS3 The Charity’s objects (“the Objects”) are for the benefit of the public generally and in particular (but without limitation) children and young people in the Greater Manchester, Lancashire and surrounding areas:-3.1 to promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of association football and other sports capable of improving health (“facilities” in this Article 3 means land, buildings, equipment and organising sporting activities);3.2 to provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation or other leisure time occupation of such persons who have need for such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life; 3.3 to promote social inclusion for the public benefit 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’ means being excluded from society, or part of society, as a result of being a member of a socially and economically deprived community.”)3.4 “to develop the capacity and skills of the members of the socially and economically disadvantaged community of Bolton in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society”.3.5 The promotion of equality and diversity for the public benefit by (a) the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religion;(b) advancing education and raising awareness in equality and diversity;(c) promoting activities to foster understanding between people from diverse backgrounds;(d) cultivating a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity.3.6 to advance the education of the public through such means as the trustees think fit in accordance with the law of charity; and3.7 for the general purposes of such charitable bodies or for such other exclusively charitable purposes in each case as the trustees may from time to time decide.

**Activities:** The Charity operates: to promote community participation in healthy recreation; to provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation or other leisure time occupation of such persons who have need for such facilities; and to advance the education of the public.

**Area of benefit:** GREATER MANCHESTER, LANCASHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Human Resources, Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space, Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Other Charitable Activities
- **What:** General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Amateur Sport, Economic/community Development/employment, Other Charitable Purposes
- **Who:** Children/young People, People With Disabilities, People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Bolton
- Lancashire



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 30, 2025 | £1526891 | £1712828 | £192209 | 59 |
| June 30, 2024 | £1401382 | £1458566 | £378146 | 56 |
| June 30, 2023 | £1424186 | £1328524 | £434467 | 54 |
| June 30, 2022 | £1268242 | £1292444 | £338805 | 55 |
| June 30, 2021 | £1012879 | £866261 | £363007 | 42 |



## Trustees

- **DAVE SINGLETON** (Chair)
- Alan Walsh — appointed July 19, 2017
- Bashir Jama Aideed — appointed Sept. 30, 2020
- John McGinlay — appointed June 7, 2016
- Jonathan Lord — appointed March 2, 2023
- Marie Bisset — appointed Feb. 15, 2017
- NORMA RUTHERFORD — appointed May 24, 2017
- Paul William Graham Holliday — appointed Sept. 18, 2025
- Susan Mary Johnson — appointed March 27, 2025
- William Dawson — appointed July 18, 2017