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Registered charity · Liverpool

The Bluecoat

The Bluecoat is a registered charity (number 700862) based in Liverpool, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by Peter Malcolm Mearns since 2016. Latest income £2.3m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £2.3m (2025)
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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
Where
Knowsley, Liverpool City, St Helens, Wirral and more
Website
www.thebluecoat.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Bluecoat
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.3m£2.5m
  • 2024£2.0m£2.6m
  • 2023£2.2m£2.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.9m£2.6m
  • 2021£1.8m£1.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 33%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO FOSTER AND PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF ARTISTIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE COUNTY OF MERSEYSIDE.

Grants received

17 grants · £4,414,881 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.

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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

7.6y median 8y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (3)

9
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 7Education/training 3General Charitable Purposes 2Environment/conservation/heritage 1Other Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 17Education 4Hospitality 3

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£2.3m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.9 in 2021

90 from 65 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
700862
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 APRIL 1988 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED PASSED 27 SEPTEMBER 1988 AND 9 DECEMBER 2003
Companies House
Company number 02246627 · Active
Contact on the register
01517025324 · finance@thebluecoat.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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