Wigan Athletic FC Community Trust

Analysis

Wigan Athletic FC Community Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancashire. It was registered in September 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, disability and amateur sport, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06303512). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Wigan Athletic FC Community Trust reported income of £1.8m and spending of £1.7m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £1.4m to £1.8m (+30%), an average of +6.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Wigan Athletic FC Community Trust sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ukrainian St Mary's Trust Limited (£1.8m), Krishna Cymru (£1.8m) and The Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (£1.8m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 100%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £379k would cover about 3 months of spending at that rate. It employed 58 people.