BLACKBURN AND DARWEN DISTRICT WITHOUT ABUSE LIMITED

1. BLACKBURN AND DARWEN DISTRICT WITHOUT ABUSE LIMITED 2013-11-28 → present
2. BLACKBURN AND DARWEN DISTRICT WOMEN'S AID LIMITED 2006-06-01 → 2013-11-28

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

KM

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees have assessed the financial position of The Wish Centre and are confident that the organisation remains a going concern. The charity has maintained a strong financial foundation, with reserves significantly above the minimum threshold required to sustain operations.”

Significant events

• “Across our services we have supported 3,700 people throughout the year. This is an increase from the previous year.”
• “We pride ourselves on the excellent work we undertake and will therefore be reapplying for Women's Aid accreditation and working towards One Small Thing trauma quality mark over the coming year.”
• “We started the financial year in a positive position and were encouraged that employing both a consultant bid writer and fundraiser were successful in raising funds.”
• “This post has now been recruited to.”
• “We successfully re-tendered for the Blackburn with Darwen Unitary Authority Domestic Abuse commission.”
• “We held our first fundraising hall and raised an amazing £10,000. The ball was sponsored by Haydock Finance a local business who has supported us for many years. We also raised over £3,000 from a lunch organised by the women's business network.”
• “We therefore made the decision to close the shop and invest in other areas of direct work.”
• “Following a tendering process we have contracted with a new accountancy firm and new auditors.”
• “Sadly, due to withdrawal of some of our funding we had to make several staff redundant for the first time in 30 plus years.”
• “In respect of governance our Articles of Association have been updated and adopted by the Board.”
• “We appointed an additional staff member whose role is to oversee governance processes in the organsiation...”
• “We have adopted the Charity Governance Code and use this to review our governance principles...”
• “We have continued to campaign to change legislation where it is needed and are proud of the collaborative nature of our relationships with national organsiation such as Women's Aid and SafeLives and local ones too.”
• “Our Memorandum and Articles of Association provide a framework for the Wish Centre to conduct organisational business. It structures the way the Trustee Board functions and sets out the rules we abide by. The trustees worked with a lawyer, experienced in charity law to review our Articles and they were approved by resolution on the 10 October 2024.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  —

  Not reported

• Cash

  -24.2%

  £1,049,831 → £795,954

• Net assets

  -3.3%

  £2,542,212 → £2,457,954

• Employees

  0%

  41 → 41

• Wages

  +11.3%

  £906,451 → £1,009,270

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers