Bolton Low Houses Childcare Unit

Analysis

Bolton Low Houses Childcare Unit is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cumbria. It was registered in November 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Bolton Low Houses Childcare Unit reported income of £295k and spending of £264k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £198k to £295k (+49%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Bolton Low Houses Childcare Unit sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St.mark's Pre-School (£295k), Perspectives on Systems, Souls and Society (£296k) and Rainbow Pre-School (Wallingford) (£295k).