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Registered charity · Manchester

Manchester Histories

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £557k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham and more
Website
www.manchesterhistories.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Manchester Histories
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£557k£265k
  • 2024£175k£206k
  • 2023£157k£168k
Earlier years
  • 2022£188k£203k
  • 2021£194k£158k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 24%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION. IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FORGOING TO:- - PROMOTE, ADVANCE AND WIDEN ACCESS TO EDUCATION AND LEARNING ABOUT GREATER MANCHESTER'S HISTORY AND HERITAGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC; - TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SEE FIT.

Grants received

13 grants · £1,298,013 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 Heritage Fund · £1,130,343 (7 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £157,970 (5 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,700

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £245,1812025-04-15
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £180,4212024-09-09
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £248,5412024-08-08
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £3,0002022-01-31
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,7002021-11-19
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

8.5y median 8y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

5
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 6Education/training 6Environment/conservation/heritage 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 5Arts and leisure 3Business services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£557k 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.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

5
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
1151944
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06 NOV 2012
Companies House
Company number 08283259 · Active
Contact on the register
01613061982 · info@manchesterhistories.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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