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Registered charity · Burnley

Acorn Recovery Projects

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £5.8m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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Public contracts won

3 contracts · £45,000 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • Specialist Rehabilitation Service Buyer: Lancashire County Council £15,000 2025-08-28 CPV 85312500 Source: Contracts Finder

    This provision to to provide urgent Rehabilitation services to under 18s. - This notice is confirmation of an award having been made due to an urgent circumstance. The reason for the urgency was not foreseeable by and not attributable to t…

  • Specialist Rehabilitation Service Buyer: Lancashire County Council £15,000 2025-08-27 CPV 85312500 Source: Contracts Finder

    This provision to to provide urgent Rehabilitation services to under 18s. - This notice is confirmation of an award having been made due to an urgent circumstance. The reason for the urgency was not foreseeable by and not attributable to t…

  • Specialist Rehabilitation Service Buyer: Lancashire County Council £15,000 2025-08-18 CPV 85312500 Source: Contracts Finder

    This provision to to provide urgent Rehabilitation services to under 18s. - This notice is confirmation of an award having been made due to an urgent circumstance. The reason for the urgency was not foreseeable by and not attributable to t…

About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Accommodation/housing
Where
Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and more
Website
acornrecovery.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Acorn Recovery Projects
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.8m£5.4m
  • 2024£4.0m£3.9m
  • 2023£3.9m£4.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.4m£3.4m
  • 2021£3.7m£3.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 49% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS WITH AN ALCOHOLIC OR DRUG ADDICTION PROBLEM BY ADVISING AND ASSISTING SUCH PERSONS, TO HELP THE FAMILIES AND DEPENDENTS OF SUCH PERSONS AND TO ENCOURAGE AND EQUIP THE RECOVERED ALCOHOLIC OR DRUG ADDICT TO TAKE A USEFUL AND RESPONSIBLE PART IN SOCIETY

Grants received

9 grants · £335,615 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

Most recent

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.

8 trustees on the board

4.5y median 3.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

Portfolio (8)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 7Education/training 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7Disability 1Economic/community Development/employment 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Health and social care 46Professional services 5Other services 4

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£5.8m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

2.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

83 from 89 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.
52%
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
1063589
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 24/05/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/07/1997AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 31/10/2013
Companies House
Company number 03360545 · Active
Contact on the register
0161 484 0000 · contact@acornrecovery.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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