The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 13th September 2026

The Manchester Guardian Society Charitable Trust

Registered charity 515341 Registered since 1984

Operates: Bolton, Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan

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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.

4.8y median 2y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (4)

3
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 10Education/training 2Amateur Sport 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Disability 1Religious Activities 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Health and social care 3Education 2Arts and leisure 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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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£142k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.manchesterguardiansociety.org.uk
Emailsecretary@manchesterguardiansociety.org.uk
Phone01204414317
Addressc/o Beyond Profit Ltd, Bolton Arena, Arena Approach, Horwich, BOLTON, BL6 6LB

Finances

£141,659 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£87,661£241,647
2022£108,922£208,969
2023£75,865£185,362
2024£124,559£186,579
2025£141,659£189,870

What it does

What

General Charitable Purposes

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

How

Makes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

TO APPLY THE CAPITAL AND INCOME IN PERPETUITY TO OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS OR TO OR FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES (BEING PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Governing document: TRUST DEED DATED 12 JUNE 1984 AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL DEED DATED 20 JANUARY 2006 as amended on 04 Sep 2023 as amended on 09 Sept 2024

Trustees (10)

10trustees
69median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (8)

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