Skip to content
Governance Register
Sign inFind yourself
Find yourselfSign in
Search How it works For organisations For professionals

Edition

United Kingdom (current)IrelandUnited StatesNew ZealandCanadaAustraliaScotlandNorthern Ireland

Registered charity · Manchester

The Pankhurst Trust (Incorporating Manchester Women's AID)

The Pankhurst Trust (Incorporating Manchester Women's AID) is a registered charity (number 1126433) based in Manchester, governed by 13 trustees and chaired by Caroline Roberts-Cherry since 2021. Latest income £3.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

(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...

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £3.6m (2025)
How am I connected?
More
View network map Report an issue

The people who lead this organisation are listed below. Create a free account to save it, get alerts and check how you are connected.

Official record Charity Commission · updated 25th October 2026 · Sources · Free, no card or password

Network

The large node is The Pankhurst Trust (Incorporating Manchester Women's AID). Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Dashed links are historical or inferred. Click any node to explore.

Who leads it

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

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

People on this board also govern

Similar charities are matched by type of organisation or purpose and listed by latest income; shared trustees are formal board links. Neither is proof the organisations work together.

About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Manchester City
Website
www.pankhursttrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Pankhurst Trust (Incorporating Manchester Women's AID)
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.6m£3.5m
  • 2024£3.6m£3.8m
  • 2023£3.6m£3.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.0m£3.1m
  • 2021£2.6m£2.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 77% · Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.

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.

Grants received

25 grants · £2,765,624 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 Community Fund · £1,672,632 (7 grants)
  • Sport England · £427,133 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £210,116 (3 grants)
  • Henry Smith Foundation · £150,830 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £116,900 (2 grants)

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.

13 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10y
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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

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£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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1126433
Status
Registered
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
Companies House
Company number 06726553 · Active
Contact on the register
0161 820 8414 · invoices@pankhursttrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data