Blackburn Rovers Community Trust

Analysis

Blackburn Rovers Community Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancashire. It was registered in December 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05904736). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Blackburn Rovers Community Trust reported income of £1.8m and spending of £1.8m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £2.0m to £1.8m (-12%), an average of -3.2% a year. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Blackburn Rovers Community Trust sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Guru Maneyo Granth Gurdwara (£1.8m), Child Brain Injury Trust (£1.8m) and One Trust (£1.8m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 68% and trading 31%. Charitable activities took 56% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £1.0m. Reserves of £478k would cover about 3 months of spending at that rate. It employed 35 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.