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Registered charity · Manchester

The Mechanics Centre Museum of Labour and Trades Union History Trust

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £4k (2025)

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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Manchester City
Linked company
The Mechanics Centre Museum of Labour and Trades' Union History Trust
Registered
1987

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4k£38k
  • 2024£28k£24k
  • 2023£4k£18k
Earlier years
  • 2022£5k£13k
  • 2021£4k£38k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE FACILITIES, IN PARTICULAR A MUSEUM, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING ADVANCING ITS KNOWLEDGE OF THE ORIGINS, GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE LABOUR AND TRADES UNION MOVEMENTS AND PROMOTING AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONTRIBUTION MADE BY THE MANCHESTER MECHANICS INSTITUTE (WHICH OCCUPIED 103 PRINCESS ST, MANCHESTER FROM 1856 TO 1882) TO THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG MEN IN THE APPLICATIONOF SCIENCE TO MECHANICAL AND MANUFACTURING ART.

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.

9.7y median 10y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.9y
average years in governance
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 16

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 28Business services 4Professional services 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£4k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
519213
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 24 JULY 1987
Companies House
Company number 02150230 · Active
Contact on the register
01618604067 · jim@cwu-gmr.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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