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Registered charity (CIO) · Manchester

The Cohesion and Integration Network

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £656k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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Public contracts won

2 contracts

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • ECC006 - Middlesbrough Council Social Cohesion Support Buyer: Middlesbrough Council Value not published Date not published Source: Find a Tender

    Belong has been funded by the National Lottery UK Fund to deliver an end-to-end cohesion programme in partnership with local authorities in forty areas across England and Wales between January 2026 and September 2029. As part of this progra…

  • 28833 Community Cohesion Strategy Buyer: Plymouth City Council Value not published Date not published Source: Find a Tender

    Plymouth City Council, alongside City Leadership Group partners, seeks to procure specialist support to develop a city-wide Community Cohesion Strategy and accompanying delivery framework for Plymouth. The requirement covers a four-stage pr…

About

What it does
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Scotland, Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.belongnetwork.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£656k£602k
  • 2024£211k£366k
  • 2023£482k£309k
Earlier years
  • 2022£228k£249k
  • 2021£259k£180k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 33%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY BY:I) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;II) PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS;III) PROMOTING COHESION AND INTEGRATION, AND FOSTERING UNDERSTANDING WITHIN AND BETWEEN COMMUNITIES;IV) CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC;V) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;VI) SEEKING THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF LAWFUL DIFFERENCE, WHATEVER THE BACKGROUND OF INDIVIDUALS OR COMMUNITIES;VII) PROMOTING BEST PRACTICE AND THE SHARING OF IDEAS IN THE AREAS OF COHESION, INTEGRATION AND INTERCULTURAL INTERVENTIONS;VIII) DEVELOPING IDEAS, CREATING LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, AND BUILDING CAPACITY, COMPETENCE AND CONFIDENCE FOR ALL THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN THIS FIELD.(B) THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR COHESION AND INTEGRATION POLICY AND PRACTICE BY IDENTIFYING AND DISSEMINATING BEST PRACTICE IN COHESION AND INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES, WHERE:‘THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR’ MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS; ANDI) CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES; ANDII) VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

Grants received

8 grants · £455,106 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

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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.

7 trustees on the board

5.6y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 6Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Property 26Hospitality 23Finance 21

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£656k 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.

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

7
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
1180761
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 20 Nov 2018
Contact on the register
+447706153659 · hello@belongnetwork.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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