CARE NETWORK (BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN) LTD

Registered charity 1123032 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Care Network supports vulnerable people in Blackburn with Darwen to live independently by referring them onto a range of quality assured services inc. information and advice and home maintenance services (through our safe trader scheme), a range of health and wellbeing services provided locally through our Hub service and through the delivery of our volunteer and disability support schemes.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO VULNERABLE PEOPLE AND THEIR CARERS RESIDING IN THE LOCAL AUTHORITY DISTRICT OF BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN AND SURROUNDING AREAS ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT") WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF AGE, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY PROVIDING ACCESS TO A NETWORK OF QUALITY APPROVED, AFFORDABLE, DAY-TO-DAY SUPPORT SERVICES IN AN EFFORT TO PROMOTE AND FOSTER THE PRINCIPLES OF INDEPENDENT LIVING, IMPROVED SELF-ESTEEM AND NURTURE CONFIDENCE AMONGST SAID PERSONS SO THAT THEY CAN PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Area of benefit: LOCAL AUTHORITY DISTRICT OF BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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 accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £41,661 for the year, with total funds increasing to £446,953. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £229,627 are held, which equates to approximately 6.3 months of core costs, meeting their policy target of three to six months. The trustees also consider that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 5 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
• Investing charity funds 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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan William Pickup
• Erika Joyce Holmes
• Jeremy Garth Hodgkinson · trustee of 6 other charities
• Katie Mares
• Martin David Rouse
• Muhammad Mizan · trustee of 2 other charities
• Paul Michael Schofield
• Victoria Shepherd

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE.

• BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.1m
• CARE NETWORK CAMBRIDGESHIRE income £1.1m
• AGE UK BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN income £1.1m
• SEFTON CARERS CENTRE income £2.2m
• BLACKBURN AND DARWEN DISTRICT WITHOUT ABUSE LIMITED income £1.4m
• NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE CARELINK income £928k

Side by side with its peers

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