Governing document BOLTON WANDERERS COMMUNITY TRUST
Charity number: 1090753
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Governing document
Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established. It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15 NOVEMBER 2001 AS AMENDED BY WRITTEN RESOLUTION DATED 26 MAY 2010 AND REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 16 JULY 2010, AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 6 JULY 2010 as amended on 20 Oct 2021
Charitable objects
OBJECTS
3 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; and
3.7 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.
Area of benefit
The area the charity can operate in, as set out in its governing document.
GREATER MANCHESTER, LANCASHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS
