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Registered charity (CIO) · Blackpool

Empowerment Charity Lancashire

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £2.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Lancashire, Blackpool
Website
www.empowermentcharity.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.5m£2.5m
  • 2024£2.4m£2.3m
  • 2023£2.1m£2.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.1m£1.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 39% · Government grants 39%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE,SUPPORT AND PROVIDE ADVOCACY SERVICES OR REPRESENTATION SERVICES AS A MEANS BY WHICH PEOPLE DISADVANTAGED BY DISABILITY,ILLNESS,AGE OR SOCIAL EXCLUSION CAN MAKE KNOWN THEIR NEEDS AND WISHES IN ORDER TO OBTAIN APPROPRIATE SERVICES AND SO INCREASE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE.TO EDUCATE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICE PROVIDERS AND THE COMMUNITY IN GENERAL AS TO THE DIFFICULTIES FOR DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES.TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING EXPERIENCED BY ANY INDIVIDUAL OR FAMILY WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE

Grants received

30 grants · £1,865,374 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.

7 trustees on the board

3.9y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

0
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 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7Disability 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board

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£2.5m 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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.7 in 2021

78 from 39 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.
78%
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
1155897
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Association Registered 21 Feb 2014
Contact on the register
03003232100 · admin@empowermentcharity.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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