Wigan Road Education and Communty Centre

Analysis

Wigan Road Education and Communty Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bolton. It was registered in January 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending November 2025, Wigan Road Education and Communty Centre reported income of £87k and spending of £50k, leaving 42% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2021 to November 2025, income fell from £310k to £87k (-72%), an average of -27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2022, when income dropped by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 18% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Wigan Road Education and Communty Centre sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Myworld Creative Projects (£87k), Yeshivas Ahavas Torah (£87k) and Hounslow Community Foodbox (£87k).