BLACKBURN DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION

Registered charity 1020101 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To develop Christian Education in parishes, schools, further and higher education establishments within the Diocese of Blackburn. To support school governors in the maintenance and development of school buildings. To be the Custodian trustee of school buildings and land as defined in individual school trust deeds or under section 86 of the Education Act 1944.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £134,000 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total net assets of £6,376,000. The trustees have confirmed that the charity is well placed to manage its risks and has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Free reserves of £2,305,000 are held above the agreed target level of £1,918,931, providing a buffer against potential funding disruptions.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00557954

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MITCHELL, Jane — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• ANDERTON, Christopher David, Rev — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• DUCKWORTH, Paul William — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• GREGORY-WITHAM, Esther Lyn Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• HACKETT, Jade Bianca — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• WHITTAKER, Stephen Lawrence — director, appointed 01/09/2023on trustee list
• NORTH, Philip John, The Right Revd — director, appointed 10/01/2023on trustee list
• LLOYD, Simon Christopher, Rev — director, appointed 31/01/2022on trustee list
• ARSHAD, Yusra Rohi — director, appointed 25/01/2022on trustee list
• PICKEN, David Anthony, The Venerable — director, appointed 04/02/2020on trustee list
• JONES, Richard Dorian — director, appointed 25/03/2019on trustee list
• METCALFE, Deborah Louise — director, appointed 04/01/2019on trustee list
• ARNOLD, David Alun, Reverend — director, appointed 24/04/2017on trustee list
• HOLLIDAY, Andrew, Canon — director, appointed 01/01/2016on trustee list
• VENABLES, Philip Richard Meredith, Reverend — director, appointed 01/01/2016on trustee list
• PARKS, Iain Stephen — secretary, appointed 01/09/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

87 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (85 freehold); recorded price paid £795k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~20.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (38% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Venerable David Pickenchair
• Deborah Louise Metcalfe
• Jade Hackett
• Jane Mitchell
• Paul Duckworth
• Rev Andrew Holliday · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Christopher Anderton
• Rev David Arnold
• Rev Simon Christopher Lloyd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Jones
• Rt Rev Philip North
• STEPHEN WHITTAKER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Yusra Arshad

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen · Blackpool · Lancashire · Wigan

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DERBY DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION.

• DERBY DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £445k
• THE SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION (INCORPORATED) income £8.4m
• THE BLACKBURN DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £15.9m
• THE LONDON DIOCESAN BOARD FOR SCHOOLS income £7.4m
• MANCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £804k
• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.