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Registered charity · Blackburn

Blackburn Empire Theatre LTD

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £706k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Arts/culture/heritage/science, Recreation
Where
Blackburn With Darwen
Website
www.thwaitesempiretheatre.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Blackburn Empire Theatre LTD
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£706k£565k
  • 2024£546k£589k
  • 2023£462k£405k
Earlier years
  • 2022£388k£309k
  • 2021£255k£288k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE. MAINTAIN, IMPROVE, ASSIST AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION, APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DESIGN, DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREOF.

Grants received

4 grants · £60,903 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

  • Masonic Charitable Foundation £5,0002024-07-15
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £46,9002008-12-18
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,4632006-01-19
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,5402004-09-22
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.

6.3y median 3y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

21.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
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 7Recreation 7

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 7Manufacturing 2Business services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£546k 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.

7.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

4
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
508435
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26 JAN 1979AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 MAR 1980AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 19 JAN 2004AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 05 APR 2018
Companies House
Company number 01411764 · Active
Contact on the register
01254685500 · berryadvice@hotmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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