# APPLECAST LIMITED

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1123401
- **Other names:** CAST NW LIMITED
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** April 1, 2008
- **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=1123401


## Contact

- **Address:** Eco Centre, Cobbs Brow Lane, Newburgh, WIGAN
- **Postcode:** WN8 7SF
- **Phone:** 01257463012
- **Email:** CASTNORTHWEST@GMAIL.COM
- **Website:** castnw.net



## Activities

**Objects:** (1) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND DEVELOPING THEIR MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND MORAL CAPABILITIES; (2) TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND PROVIDE TRAINING IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) THE PROVISION OF TRAINING TO DEVELOP VOCATIONAL SKILLS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE, FARMING, HORTICULTURE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; 3) TO ASSIST IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT ANY ORGANISATION WHOSE AIMS INCLUDE ADVANCING EDUCATION BY DEVELOPING THEIR MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND MORAL CAPABILITIES THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES.

**Activities:** CAST NW provides educational opportunities, training, entry to employment courses and constructive leisure opportunities to clients as a means of increasing social inclusion, promoting employment and reducing offensive and anti-social behaviour. CAST provides individual learning plans leading to nationally accredited educational programmes through OCN course including information technology.

**Area of benefit:** NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE. WIGAN




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services, Other Charitable Activities
- **What:** Education/training, Amateur Sport
- **Who:** Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Throughout England



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 30, 2025 | £1143159 | £1081965 | £1657256 | 26 |
| March 30, 2024 | £1068406 | £1031064 | £1596063 | 14 |
| March 30, 2023 | £1075744 | £998590 | £1558721 | 17 |
| March 30, 2022 | £956488 | £819446 | £1481567 | 22 |
| March 30, 2021 | £713864 | £745830 | £1344525 | 24 |



## Trustees

- **lisa Jayne Wood** (Chair) — appointed June 5, 2018
- GRAHAM DOUBLEDAY — appointed April 17, 2015
- Geoffrey Bond FCII FCILA — appointed Sept. 13, 2016
- MR KEVIN HODGES — appointed June 15, 2015
- Michael Norman Buck — appointed June 17, 2025
- Nicola Hennessy — appointed June 5, 2018
- ROBERT SAGE — appointed Sept. 13, 2016
- WILLIAM HARRISON — appointed Sept. 13, 2016