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Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £16m (2025)

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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 4 more
Where
Bury, Oldham, Rochdale
Website
www.yourtrustrochdale.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural Trust
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£16m£14m
  • 2024£14m£12m
  • 2023£13m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2022£12m£12m
  • 2021£8.2m£8.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government contracts 20% · Government grants 14%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

OBJECTS3. THE CHARITABLE COMPANY HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT PRIMARILY FOR THE COMMUNITY AND VISITORS TO THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF ROCHDALE AND SURROUNDING AREAS BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT AND SUPPORT OF EDUCATION, CULTURE, ARTS, HERITAGE AND HISTORY INCLUDING THE PROVISION F LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, LEARNING AND INFORMATION CENTRES, ARCHIVES AND OTHER RELATED SERVICES; AND/OR(B) THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE SUCH FACILITIES BEING PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE SAVE THAT SPECIAL FACILITIES MAY BE PROVIDED TO PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES MAY HAVE NEED OF SPECIAL FACILITIES AND SERVICES; AND/OR(C) THE PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION; AND/OR(D) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS ABOVE AS THE DIRECTOR TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE (THE "OBJECTS").

Grants received

20 grants · £1,680,104 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £669,499 (5 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £650,000 (2 grants)
  • Sport England · £308,943 (9 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £40,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,570

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.

12 trustees on the board

3y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12

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

Professional services 13Arts and leisure 12Other services 3

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£15.7m 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.

3.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.8 in 2021

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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
1118610
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15 JANUARY 2007MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/12/2014
Companies House
Company number 06052980 · Active
Contact on the register
01706926319 · admin@yourtrustrochdale.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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