The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Pankhurst Trust (Incorporating Manchester Women's AID)

Registered charity 1126433 Registered since 2008

Operates: Manchester City

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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.

13 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (2)

13
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 13The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 13Accommodation/housing 12Education/training 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.

Health and social care 19Arts and leisure 6Tech and media 5

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£3.6m latest income
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.

1.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.4 in 2021

74 from 50 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.
88%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.pankhursttrust.org
Emailinvoices@pankhursttrust.org
Phone0161 820 8414
AddressPANKHURST CENTRE, 60-62 NELSON STREET, MANCHESTER, M13 9WP

Finances

£3,632,522 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£2,574,204£2,426,378
2022£3,021,708£3,079,146
2023£3,585,260£3,518,680
2024£3,578,524£3,752,767
2025£3,632,522£3,500,738

What it does

What

The Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyAccommodation/housingArts/culture/heritage/scienceEnvironment/conservation/heritageOther Charitable Purposes

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Defined Groups

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Advocacy/advice/informationOther Charitable Activities

Charitable objects

(A) To promote the equality of women, and (B) to promote the benefit of women, suffering, or at risk of, domestic abuse, and their dependants, with the objects of: (i) relieving need, hardship and distress among such beneficiaries; promoting the mental and physical health of such beneficiaries; (ii) advancing the education of such beneficiaries; and (iii) advancing the education of the general public in relation to issues of women's equality and domestic abuse.(C) To secure for the public benefit the preservation, restoration, improvement, enhancement and maintenance of 60/62 Nelson Street, Manchester as a building of historic and architectural interest, which building shall house a heritage and educational centre for visitors regarding the suffragette movement and women?s equality, and (D) To advance education for the public benefit by the establishment and maintenance of a museum relating to women?s equality, in particular by acquiring, preserving, documenting, interpreting and making accessible exhibits, objects and collections relating to the suffragette movement.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16/10/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/04/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 02/05/2014AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 08/05/2014 as amended on 23 Jul 2024 as amended on 13 Apr 2026

Trustees (13)

13trustees
55median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The Pankhurst Trust (Incorporating Manchester Women's AID) · 06726553 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 17/10/2008

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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