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Registered charity · Blackburn

T.H.O.M.A.S (Those on the Margins of A Society)

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 1 more
Where
Salford City, Lancashire, Blackburn With Darwen, Bolton and more
Website
www.thomasonline.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
T.H.O.M.A.S. (Those on the Margins of A Society)
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.8m£1.7m
  • 2024£1.7m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 91% · Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION AMONGST PERSONS SUFFERING AS A RESULT OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE AND HOUSING NEED, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE AND ADVICE OF ALL KINDS INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT AND ACCOMMODATION TO THE HOMELESS AND EDUCATIONAL, LEGAL AND MEDICAL ADVICE, COUNSELLING AND ASSISTANCE.B TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE EFFECTS OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE AND HOUSING NEED.C TO PURSUE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE WHICH THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY THINK FIT TO PURSUE IN CONJUNCTION WITH ANY OF THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES MENTIONED ABOVE.

Grants received

9 grants · £954,209 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

10.8y median 11y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

7
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 8General Charitable Purposes 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

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

Hospitality 7Health and social care 3Construction 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£1.8m 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.

5.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.8 in 2021

33 from 34 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.
98%
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
1114489
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 28 SEPTEMBER 2005
Companies House
Company number 05577388 · Active
Contact on the register
0125459240 · james.mccartney@thomasonline.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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