BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE — grant history

Registered charity 1008190 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£1.1m

Grants listed (FY2023)

Listed grants total

£136k

Accounts grants total

£42k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2023 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Deadlines: There will be three rounds of funding during 2026, with key dates as follows: – Deadline Round 17 12 noon on Monday 2nd February Round 18 12 noon on Friday 1st May Round 19 12 noon on Monday 28th September
What they don’t fund: must not be a statutory body or private sector organisation (i.e. it must be set up on a ‘not for private profit’ basis – not privately owned or be able to distribute dividends to individuals and must be able to undertake activities of a charitable purpose) your group must not directly employ any paid members of staff and must be run by volunteers and use volunteers to deliver its activities

Summarised from www.communitycvs.org.uk · www.communitycvs.org.uk/resource/business-fundamentals-skills-for-enterprise-growth/ · www.communitycvs.org.uk/resource/funding-resources/blackburn-with-darwen-community-fund/ on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (1 grantee)
Recreation (1 grantee)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Hackney (1 grantee)
Haringey (1 grantee)
Israel (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Blackburn with Darwen Youth Awareness Project	FY2023	£17k	Spark Collaborative Community Asset Fund
Breakthrough	FY2023	£17k	Spark Collaborative Community Asset Fund
Bureau Centre for the Arts CIC	FY2023	£17k	Spark Collaborative Community Asset Fund
Darwen Community	FY2023	£17k	Spark Collaborative Community Asset Fund
Rise and Shine	FY2023	£17k	Spark Collaborative Community Asset Fund
Shad Chefs	FY2023	£17k	Spark Collaborative Community Asset Fund
Sober Bee	FY2023	£17k	Spark Collaborative Community Asset Fund
Talk Ourselves Well man Collective	FY2023	£17k	Spark Collaborative Community Asset Fund
Kiran Ladies Group	FY2023	£925	BwD Community Fund (Brian Mercer Trust)

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 136061 vs reference 41600 (227.1% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.