Registered charity · Cheshire

Manchester Libraries Trust

9 trustees
Income £6k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Where: Manchester City
Website: www.manchesterlibrariestrust.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Manchester Libraries Trust
Registered: 2012

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£6k£2k
2024£21k£31k
2023£9k£7k

Earlier years

2022£7k£15k
2021£30k£16k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE ENHANCEMENT OF LIBRARIES, LEARNING, ADVICE AND INFORMATION, ARCHIVES AND OTHER RELATED SERVICES FOR RESIDENTS OF MANCHESTER AND CITIZENS OF THE UK AND/OR2) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES THAT BENEFIT THE PUBLIC CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECT ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE (THE "OBJECTS")

Grants received

1 grant · £8,000 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 · £8,000

Most recent

The National Lottery Community Fund £8,0002023-08-18

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.

9 trustees on the board

5.8y median 3y

average tenure

14y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

General Charitable Purposes 9

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 2Education 2

Gaps to watch

Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£6k latest income

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 1150161
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/04/2012 as amended on 28 May 2024
Companies House: Company number 08049427 · Active
Contact on the register: 07930 837757 · manchesterlibrarytrust@gmail.com
Edition: Register edition compiled 27th September 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.

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