Volunteer Centre Blackpool Wyre and Fylde

Analysis

Volunteer Centre Blackpool Wyre and Fylde is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Blackpool. It was registered in July 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under community and economic development. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05756723). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Volunteer Centre Blackpool Wyre and Fylde reported income of £626k and spending of £645k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £372k to £626k (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 1,869 England and Wales charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Volunteer Centre Blackpool Wyre and Fylde sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include One Million Mentors (£626k), Reading Real Estate Foundation (£629k) and Settled (£626k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 100%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 1.3%. Reserves of £59k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 38 people.