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Registered charity · Liverpool

Blackburne House

Blackburne House is a registered charity (number 1010546) based in Liverpool, governed by 11 trustees and chaired by Elizabeth Cross since 2002. Latest income £1.5m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Blackburne House Group (Charity Commission)

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Liverpool City
Website
www.blackburnehouse.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Blackburne House
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.7m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.7m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£1.3m
  • 2021£969k£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 15% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO RELIEVE NEED BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN AND BY PROVIDING GUIDANCE FOR SUCH OF THEM AS ARE IN NEED, CALCULATED TO ENABLE THEM TO EARN THEIR OWN LIVING, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE PROVISION OF THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND GUIDANCE FOR WOMEN; (2) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE AND IN PARTICULAR CHARITABLE PURPOSES DIRECTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PROVISION OF TRAINING FACILITIES, WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE NEEDS OF WOMEN.

Grants received

4 grants · £123,490 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £75,994
  • Steve Morgan Foundation · £36,196
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,800
  • Rosa UK · £1,500

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £75,9942020-09-22
  • Steve Morgan Foundation £36,1962020-06-18
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,8002018-08-09
  • Rosa UK £1,5002016-03-31
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

11 trustees on the board

5.5y median 3y
average tenure
24y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (1)

Portfolio (10)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 11General Charitable Purposes 11Other Charitable Purposes 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 21Business services 4Other services 3

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.5m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

51 from 47 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
16%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1010546
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 DECEMBER 1991 AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 17 NOVEMBER 1997 AND SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 15 APRIL 2003 AND 25 JUNE 2009.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 SEP 2015
Companies House
Company number 02674432 · Active
Contact on the register
01517094356 · bh.wtec@blackburnehouse.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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