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Registered charity · Lancashire

Friends of Darwen Cemetery

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £6k (2025)

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Blackburn With Darwen
Website
www.darwencemetery.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6k£6k
  • 2024£5k£4k
  • 2023£4k£4k
Earlier years
  • 2022£3k£4k
  • 2021£3k£3k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1.TO SECURE THE CONSERVATION, MAINTENANCE, OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DARWEN CEMETERY AND ITS HISTORIC BUILDINGS, MEMORIALS, TOMBS AND OTHER HISTORIC PHYSICAL FEATURES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.2. TO SECURE THE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE HISTORIC LANDSCAPE, PLANTS AND NATURAL LIFE AT DARWEN CEMETERY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY MAKING AVAILABLE MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF THE LIVES AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THOSE BURIED IN DARWEN CEMETERY AND THEIR MONUMENTS BY COLLECTING, STORING AND MAKING AVAILABLE INFORMATION ON THE GENEALOGIES, CONDITIONS AND LIFE STYLES OF THE INHABITANTS OF DARWEN AND RELATED AREAS THROUGH THE AGES BY MANAGING AND DISPLAYING MATERIAL TO DEMONSTRATE ISSUES RELATED TO THE HISTORY OF DARWEN CEMETERY AND THOSE BURIED IN IT AND BY PREPARING EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER BODIES WHO WISH TO VISIT THE CEMETERY IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR PROGRAMMES, COURSES AND SYLLABUSES.4. TO SECURE THE PROPER CONSERVATION, MANAGEMENT AND CARE OF THE BOOKS OF REMEMBRANCE, HISTORIC BURIAL RECORDS, CREMATION RECORDS AND OTHER ARCHIVES RELATING TO THE DARWEN CEMETERY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.5. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC DEVELOP THE SITE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN BOROUGH COUNCIL AS CULTURAL, HERITAGE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE ENGAGING AND INCLUDING ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY6. TO DO ALL SUCH OTHER LAWFUL THINGS AS ARE NECESSARY TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS OR ANY OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

Grants received

1 grant · £10,000 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002010-10-21
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.

7 trustees on the board

11.6y median 15y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 7General Charitable Purposes 7Environment/conservation/heritage 6Economic/community Development/employment 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.

Arts and leisure 1Health and social care 1Other services 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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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£6k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1142815
Status
Registered
Governing document
Constitution as amended on 21 May 2026
Contact on the register
07484612952 · contact@darwencemetery.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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