Blackpool Pride Festival

Analysis

Blackpool Pride Festival is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Blackpool. It was registered in June 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, arts/culture/heritage/science and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides other finance and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Blackpool Pride Festival reported income of £152k and spending of £160k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £2,541 to £152k (+5867%), an average of +178% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 3277%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Blackpool Pride Festival sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Action Breaks Silence (£151k), Freed (£152k) and The Light House (Christian Care Ministry) Trust Limited (£151k).