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Registered charity (CIO) · Manchester

The Factory of Creativity

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (2026)
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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
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Lancashire, Manchester City
Website
hopemilltheatre.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£2.0m£2.0m
  • 2025£2.2m£2.0m
  • 2024£1.7m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2023£1.3m£1.5m
  • 2022£1.4m£1.3m

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS (INCLUDING, DRAMA, MUSIC, DANCE AND ART) BY THE PRESENTATION OF PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS.B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE PERFORMING ARTS (INCLUDING, DRAMA, MUSIC AND DANCE,) IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY ENCOURAGING AND FACILITATING THE PRACTICE OF PERFORMING ARTS THROUGH PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS AND THE PROVISION OF WORKSHOPS AND INSIGHT OPPORTUNITIES.

Grants received

7 grants · £520,992 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

Most recent

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.

12 trustees on the board

1.8y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

2
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 12

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 3Construction 1Dormant 1

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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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£2.2m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.7 in 2021

7 from 12 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.
Qualified
Auditor's opinioniAuditor's opinionThe accounts_qualified flag on the latest filed annual return is True - the auditor qualified their opinion. A register flag, shown as filed.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1183251
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 03 May 2019
Contact on the register
01612759141 · Enquiries@hopemilltheatre.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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