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Registered charity · Manchester

Manchester City Galleries Trust

Manchester City Galleries Trust is a registered charity (number 1048581) based in Manchester, governed by 10 trustees. Latest income £1.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham and more
Website
www.manchesterartgallery.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Manchester City Galleries Trust
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£1.3m
  • 2024£1.8m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£958k
  • 2021£1.4m£628k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE CITIZENS AND OTHER RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF MANCHESTER IN PARTICULAR AND OF OTHER CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS OF THE UNTIES KINGDOM IN GENERAL IN BRITISH AND FOREIGN HISTORY OF ARTS AND FOR THE BENEFITS OF SCHOLARS IN THE UNIVERSITIES AND OF LOCAL, NATIONAL AND FOREIGN RESEARCHERS IN HISTORY OF ARTS.

Grants received

12 grants · £3,018,886 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,627,056
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £762,200 (8 grants)
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £458,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £171,630

Most recent

  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation £400,0002023-07-17
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £113,9002023-04-11
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £171,6302023-03-31
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £9,8002019-12-18
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation £58,0002019-07-08
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

10 trustees on the board

2.6y median 2.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
15.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Education/training 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 20Professional services 4Education 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.6m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

4.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 19.4 in 2021

34 from 26 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1048581
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5 MAY 1995 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 29 SEPTEMBER 2000, 11 JULY 2003 AND 23 FEBRUARY 2007 as amended on 01 Sep 2023
Companies House
Company number 03053689 · Active
Contact on the register
07917553040 · jo.beggs@manchester.gov.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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