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Registered charity · Blackburn

Blackburn and Darwen District Without Abuse Limited

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Accommodation/housing, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Lancashire, Blackburn With Darwen
Website
www.thewishcentre.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Blackburn and Darwen District Without Abuse Limited
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.7m£1.3m
  • 2023£1.7m£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.1m
  • 2021£1.5m£894k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 65%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

• TO ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OF WOMEN AND MEN AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO HAVE SUFFERED OR ARE AT RISK OF SUFFERING DOMESTIC ABUSE, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ADVICE AND ACCOMMODATION.

Grants received

27 grants · £1,592,829 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.

9 trustees on the board

7.1y median 5.5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

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 9Education/training 9Other Charitable Purposes 9

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 9Health and social care 1Professional services 1

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£1.4m latest income
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.

19.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 10.0 in 2021

41 from 28 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1116444
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01/06/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/09/2006AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 06/08/2013AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 27 NOV 2013 as amended on 10 Oct 2024
Companies House
Company number 05834929 · Active
Contact on the register
0300 561 0440 · info@thewishcentre.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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