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Registered charity · Manchester

The Portico Library and Newsroom

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £550k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Manchester City
Website
www.theportico.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Portico Library and Newsroom
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£550k£729k
  • 2023£413k£445k
  • 2022£351k£443k
Earlier years
  • 2021£433k£394k
  • 2020£518k£300k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, LITERACY, THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE, AND THE PROVISION OF LITERATURE, TO MAINTAIN THE PREMISES IN MOSLEY STREET, MANCHESTER, OR SUCH OTHER PLACE OR PLACES AS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED AS A LIBRARY, NEWSROOM AND ART GALLERY, FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND THE WIDENING OF PUBLIC INTEREST IN MATTERS OF LITERACY, ARTISTIC, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INTEREST OF EVERY KIND; TO CONDUCT A LIBRARY IN THE PREMISES AT MOSLEY STREET, MANCHESTER, OR AT SUCH OTHER PLACE OR PLACES AS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED AND BUY OR HIRE AND LEND BOOKS, MAGAZINES, MUSIC, PERIODICALS AND PUBLICATIONS GENERALLY.

Grants received

11 grants · £872,636 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

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £30,0002023-11-06
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9502023-05-19
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £96,1732023-05-04
  • The Grocers' Charity £5,0002023-04-28
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £552,8032022-11-30
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

3.1y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

12
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 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 11General Charitable Purposes 11Environment/conservation/heritage 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 12Business services 4Professional 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£550k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 120.0 in 2020

10 from 6 in 2020
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
1143639
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/01/2011 as amended on 13 Sep 2019 as amended on 17 Sep 2019 as amended on 18 Nov 2021
Companies House
Company number 07499984 · Active
Contact on the register
01612366785 · librarian@theportico.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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