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Registered charity · Manchester

The Audience Agency

  • 8 trustees

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.theaudienceagency.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Audience Agency
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025--
  • 2024£2.7m£3.1m
  • 2023£3.4m£3.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.2m£3.0m
  • 2021£2.8m£2.5m
Charitable objects

THE COMPANY HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED TO:1. PROMOTE THE EFFECTIVE USE OF THE RESOURCES BY CHARITABLE AND NON-CHARITABLE BODIES FOR THE CHARITABLE PURPOSE OF THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:1.1 THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, TRAINING AND INFORMATION TO FOSTER AND PROMOTE THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS; AND/OR1.2 THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES TO IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS AND ASSIST IN PROMOTING AND ADVANCING THE PRACTICE, PRESENTATION, PRODUCTION AND STUDY OF ALL FORMS OF THE ARTS; AND/OR1.3 THE PROVISION OF OTHER ASSISTANCE WHICH IS DESIGNED TO INCREASE THE QUALITY AND LEVEL OF PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE ARTS AND TO DEVELOP EXPERTISE AND GOOD PRACTICE IN RELATION TO THIS; AND/OR2. FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONSISTENT WITH THE ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL DETERMINE (TOGETHER THE “OBJECTS”).

Board analysis for researchers

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.

8 trustees on the board

2.4y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
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 8Education/training 8General Charitable Purposes 8

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 11Professional services 8Property 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 4 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.7m 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.

1.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

56 from 45 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.
39%
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
1149979
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25 JUN 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 05/12/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/06/2014
Companies House
Company number 08117915 · Active
Contact on the register
01612342956 · hello@theaudienceagency.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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