BLACKPOOL CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED AND RESIDENTS ADVICE SERVICE

Registered charity 1099585 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting people across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre BCFU specifically supports, represents and campaigns for the most vulnerable and those socially excluded in our community including homeless, travelers, offenders, long term unemployed, those facing redundancy and disabled.Services include Welfare Rights Advice, Education and Training, Form FIlling, Employment support,

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND PARTICULARLY PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN THE BLACKPOOL AREA BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, ADVOCACY AND TRAINING.

Area of benefit: BLACKPOOL AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Blackpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£0
Latest spending
£3k
Registered
2003

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Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 2

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 4
  • Government income: £9,600 — contracts £9,600 (1); 39% of the £24,435 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2022

  • Volunteers: 2

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 12/03/2025, 40 days after the 31/01/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Blackpool · Lancashire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£0£3k
31/03/2024£19k£23k
31/03/2023£24k£21k
31/03/2022£22k£23k
31/03/2021£18k£21k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund18/08/2023£10kAdvice and Guidance during the 'Cost of Living' Crisis