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Registered charity · Manchester

Manchester International Festival

  • 20 trustees
  • Income £24m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham and more
Website
www.factoryinternational.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Manchester International Festival
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£24m£26m
  • 2024£29m£31m
  • 2023£14m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2022£20m£19m
  • 2020£13m£6.6m

Income trend, 2020 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 10% · Government grants 46%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) MUSIC, OPERA, DANCE, SINGING, DANCING, LITERATURE AND THE VISUAL ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) THE HOLDING OF FESTIVALS OF CULTURE, IDEAS AND CREATIVITY

Grants received

18 grants · £31,138,993 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 Culture, Media & Sport · £19,816,300 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £10,238,150 (3 grants)
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £776,258 (5 grants)
  • The Linbury Trust · £149,550
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £44,700

Most recent

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.

20 trustees on the board

3y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (16)

Portfolio (4)

17
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 20Education/training 2General Charitable Purposes 2Environment/conservation/heritage 1Other Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

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 29Business services 7Finance 6

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£24.2m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

6.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 4.1 in 2020

210
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.
57%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1113902
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 22 NOVEMBER 2004 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 18 JULY 2008. NOW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED 17 FEBRUARY 2011.
Companies House
Company number 05292793 · Active
Contact on the register
01618174500 · companysecretary@factoryinternational.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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