BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN HEALTHY LIVING

Registered charity 1122978 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of facilities, services, support, training, education and information in order to encourage the development of a more positive attitude to health, to lead healthy lifestyles and to improve the quality of life for residents principally in the borough of Blackburn with Darwen and throughout all boroughs in England and Wales.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE TO PROVIDE, OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER LIKE-MINDED ORGANISATIONS, TO ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, SERVICES, SUPPORT, TRAINING, EDUCATION AND INFORMATION IN ORDER TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF THOSE INHABITANTS RESIDING IN, PRINCIPALLY, THE BOROUGH OF BLACKBURN AND DARWEN, AND THROUGHOUT ALL BOROUGHS IN ENGLAND AND WALES IN AN EFFORT TO ENCOURAGE SAID INHABITANTS TO DEVELOP A MORE POSITIVE ATTITUDE TO HEALTH, TO LEAD HEALTHY LIFESTYLES AND TO IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF BLACKBURN AND DARWEN

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £12,897 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £238,693 to £225,796. Despite the deficit, the charity holds £214,832 in cash at bank and in hand, which the trustees confirm is adequate to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeremy Garth Hodgkinsonchair · trustee of 6 other charities
• ANIKA LESLIE-WALKER
• ELIZABETH ANNE WILLIAMS
• EMMA LOUISE GARNER
• Iftekhar Ali
• Koser Khan
• Linda Jean Whalley
• PAULA LOUISE SPENCE

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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