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Registered charity · Manchester

Banana Enterprise Network

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £577k (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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Linked company
Banana Enterprise Network
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£577k£590k
  • 2024£111k£80k
  • 2023£37k£75k
Earlier years
  • 2022£155k£148k
  • 2021£75k£74k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 25%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:1. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND OTHER SUPPORT DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME.2. THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT.3. THE PRESERVATION, RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT OF ROCK HALL FARNWORTH, A GRADE II LISTED BUILDING AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE THAT EXISTS IN AND AROUND THE SAID BUILDING.4. SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

Grants received

24 grants · £545,175 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

  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government · £264,810 (5 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £99,984 (8 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £99,600
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities · £30,190 (3 grants)
  • The Coalfields Regeneration Trust · £25,000 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,9992025-09-24
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government £221,3322024-10-08
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government £5,4622024-10-07
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government £18,1682024-07-26
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government £9,9002024-07-25
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.

8 trustees on the board

4.6y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.8y
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.

Economic/community Development/employment 8Education/training 8The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Other services 8Manufacturing 1Retail and trade 1

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£577k 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.

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

2
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
1161408
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16 JUL 2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/12/2014AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 02/01/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 23/04/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 27 JUN 2022 as amended on 04 Sept 2024 as amended on 04 Sept 2024
Companies House
Company number 09133991 · Active
Contact on the register
07775066130
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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