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Registered charity · Manchester

The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £138k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Manchester City, Cheshire East, Derbyshire, Lancashire and more
Website
WWW.MANLITPHIL.AC.UK (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£138k£113k
  • 2024£74k£154k
  • 2023£67k£172k
Earlier years
  • 2022£61k£167k
  • 2021£54k£111k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

PROMOTING THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE WIDENING OF PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE APPRECIATION OF ANY FORM OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, THE ARTS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROVIDED THAT NO ACTIVITY INVOLVING PARTY POLITICS OR CONTROVERSIAL THEOLOGY SHALL BE INCLUDED IN THE PURSUIT OF THESE OBJECTS.

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.

16 trustees on the board

2.4y median 1.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (15)

Portfolio (1)

15
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 16Education/training 16Environment/conservation/heritage 15Economic/community Development/employment 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.

Education 15Professional services 4Arts and leisure 2

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£138k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
235313
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 9 MARCH 1964 AS AMENDED 17 MAY 1979, 27 MARCH 1985 AND 27 SEPTEMBER 1995
Companies House
Company number 00009330 · Active
Contact on the register
07312090503 · ADMIN@MANLITPHIL.AC.UK
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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