BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN FOOD ALLIANCE CIO

Registered charity 1201310 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN FOOD ALLIANCE

The preservation, protection & promotion of good health & the environment for the public benefit in Blackburn with Darwen & the surrounding area by increasing public understanding, education, involvement & knowledge of the way in which food is produced, distributed, consumed & disposed of & the effects this can have on human health & the health of the environment on which humans depend

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE, PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF RESIDENTS OF BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT IN THE WAY FOOD IS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED, CONSUMED AND DISPOSED OF; AND2. TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF THE RESOURCES APPLIED TO FOOD PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, CONSUMPTION AND DISPOSAL THROUGH ASSISTANCE, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT AND BY SEEKING TO REDUCE THE QUANTITY OF FOOD GOING TO LANDFILL.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total funds of £89,773 as of 31 March 2025, an increase from £14,489 in the prior year. The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £12,532, while restricted funds held £77,241. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern, with no stated reserves policy target or material uncertainties identified.

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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 18/02/2025, 18 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

• Jacqueline Ann Floydchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel Jones
• Gillian Diana Fourie
• James Eastham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julie Dawn Mallinder - Smith BA, PGCE
• Sarah Knowles

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN HEALTHY LIVING.

• BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN HEALTHY LIVING income £194k
• FOOD FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.1m
• BLACKBURN FOODBANK income £959k
• BOURNE FOODBANK income £36k
• SUSTAIN: THE ALLIANCE FOR BETTER FOOD & FARMING income £2.7m

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