BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN CARERS SERVICE LTD

Registered charity 1120110 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Blackburn With Darwen Carers Service exists to provide a 'one stop shop' approach to offering information, advice and support to all unpaid carers within Blackburn With Darwen. The service aims to raise awareness of the needs of unpaid carers and will support carers to have a voice and improve the quality of services that are available to carers and their dependents. The carers centre is a base fo

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF PERSONS WHO ARE ILL, DISABLED OR WHO ARE ELDERLY AND HAVE A CHARITABLE NEED, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY RESIDENT OR WORKING IN BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO THOSE PERSONS, THEIR RELATIVES OR CARERS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID BENEFICIARIES.

Area of benefit: BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Blackburn with Darwen, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a small surplus of £2,569 for the year ended 31 March 2026, reversing a previous deficit. The trustees report that free unrestricted reserves of £138,054 provide 5.4 months of coverage, which is above their stated policy target of around three months of charitable expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05881757

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.

• BLOOMFIELD, Clair Amanda — director, appointed 15/01/2026on trustee list
• SHEIKH, Huma — director, appointed 15/01/2026on trustee list
• HIGHAM, Charles James — director, appointed 16/11/2021on trustee list
• BRINDLEY, Graham Martin — director, appointed 14/07/2014on trustee list
• HADLEIGH, John James — director, appointed 10/07/2012on trustee list
• MORRIS, Samantha Jayne — secretary, appointed 19/07/2006

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles James Higham
• Clair Bloomfield
• Graham Brindley
• Huma Sheikh
• JAMES HADLEIGH

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CARE NETWORK (BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN) LTD.

• CARE NETWORK (BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN) LTD income £879k
• BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.1m
• BRIDGEND CARERS CENTRE income £729k
• CARERS NORTHUMBERLAND income £468k
• AGE UK BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN income £1.1m
• HARTLEPOOL CARERS income £538k

Side by side with its peers

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