CHILD ACTION NORTHWEST

Registered charity 222533 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BLACKBURN AND DISTRICT CHILDREN'S HOMES, BLACKBURN AND DISTRICT ORPHANAGE AND CHILDREN'S HOME, BLACKBURN CHILD CARE SOCIETY, BLACKBURN CHILDREN'S SOCIETY

To work with disadvantaged and under privelaged children and young people, their families and communities, to improve their life chances.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £771,712 for the year ended 31 March 2025, supported by investment gains and property disposals. The trustees confirm that free liquid unrestricted reserves of £3,153,703 were held at year-end, which exceeds the stated policy target of £1,650,000. The auditor confirmed that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PM+M Solutions for Business LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Child Action Northwest announce they're going back to their roots with new residential service lep.co.uk · 31/07/2024
• Local teams get their charity football boots on to support Child Action Northwest lancashiretelegraph.co.uk · 12/06/2023
• Trip back in time for Wilpshire-based charity Child Action Northwest lancashiretelegraph.co.uk · 04/04/2012

What the charity says about itself (2024/25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Child Action Northwest (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tony Okotie — Chief Executive Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Peddiechair
• Fay Walker
• Lewis Alexander Baxter
• Philip John Kenny
• Rachel Covey
• Sajid Iqbal
• Sarah Booth-Henry

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen · Blackpool · Bolton · Bury · Lancashire · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Trafford

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE.

• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• NORTH WEST YOUNG PEOPLES DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £228k
• AllChild income £7.3m
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• DEPAUL UK income £25.3m
• VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £7.2m

Side by side with its peers

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