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Registered charity · Blackpool

Blackpool FC Community Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £3.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 4 more
Where
Lancashire, Blackpool
Website
www.bfcct.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Blackpool F.C. Community Trust
Registered
2009

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.3m£3.3m
  • 2024£2.9m£2.8m
  • 2023£2.8m£2.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.5m£2.5m
  • 2021£2.6m£2.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR THE INHABITANTS OF BLACKPOOL AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS:A 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 CLAUSE MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES)B TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE THE 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; ANDC TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY

Grants received

26 grants · £1,045,844 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 Work and Pensions · £569,299 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £128,386 (6 grants)
  • BBC Children in Need · £108,802 (3 grants)
  • Sport England · £72,465 (6 grants)
  • Ministry of Defence · £45,616 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £59,0462026-02-26
  • Sport England £15,0002026-01-30
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £20,0002026-01-09
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,7002024-05-02
  • Veterans Foundation £30,0002024-03-27
Board analysis for researchers

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.

6 trustees on the board

7.7y median 8y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 6Education/training 6General Charitable Purposes 6

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

Arts and leisure 10Professional services 5Construction 2

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£3.3m 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.

4.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.5 in 2021

94 from 56 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
1128235
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3 FEBRUARY 2009 as amended on 15 Jan 2026
Companies House
Company number 06808212 · Active
Contact on the register
01253 348691 · office@bfcct.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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