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The Mustard Tree

The Mustard Tree is a registered charity (number 1135192) based in Manchester, governed by 6 trustees and chaired by Mark Isaac Adlestone OBE since 2021. Latest income £2.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £2.1m (2025)

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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
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham and more
Website
www.mustardtree.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Mustard Tree
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.1m£2.2m
  • 2024£2.1m£2.3m
  • 2023£2.2m£2.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.8m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 12% · Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING BY THE PROVISION OF AND ASSISTANCE IN OBTAINING HOUSING, FURNITURE, FOOD, CLOTHING AND OTHER ITEMS FOR PERSONS WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES ON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR NEEDS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED AND DISADVANTAGED AND SOCIALLY EXCLUDED PEOPLE ('THE OBJECTS').

Grants received

129 grants · £1,613,665 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

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.

6 trustees on the board

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

5
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 6Economic/community Development/employment 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 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 7Other services 5Education 4

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£2.1m 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.

0.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.3 in 2021

45 from 42 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.
13%
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
1135192
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 04 MARCH 2002
Companies House
Company number 04386613 · Active
Contact on the register
0161 850 2282 · information@mustardtree.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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