Skip to content
Governance Register
Sign inFind yourself
Find yourselfSign in
Search How it works For organisations For professionals

Edition

United Kingdom (current)IrelandUnited StatesNew ZealandCanadaAustraliaScotlandNorthern Ireland

Registered charity · Greater Manchester

The Greater Manchester Trust for Recreation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £23m (2025)
How am I connected?
More
View network map Report an issue

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

Network

The large node is The Greater Manchester Trust for Recreation. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.

Who leads it

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

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Amateur Sport, Recreation
Where
Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City and more
Website
www.gmyouthfed.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£23m£1.0m
  • 2024£428k£733k
  • 2023£137k£368k
Earlier years
  • 2022£105k£235k
  • 2021£122k£192k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

A) THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A RECREATION GROUND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS;B) THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT TO HELP AND EDUCATE THEM SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.THE AOB IS CITY OF MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND ELSEWHERE IN THE SURROUNDING TOWNS AND DISTRICTS.

Grants received

6 grants · £60,455 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £32,900 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £18,715 (3 grants)
  • Sport England · £8,840

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £7,9272012-11-15
  • Sport England £8,8402011-03-09
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £7,6792011-02-03
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £9,7002006-03-06
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £3,1092006-01-19
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.

8 trustees on the board

3.4y median 2y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

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.

Amateur Sport 8General Charitable Purposes 8Recreation 8

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 4Other services 2Property 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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

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£22.9m 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.

22.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

19
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
521234
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME OF 2 MAY 1997 as amended on 25 Apr 2019 as amended on 07 Dec 2023
Contact on the register
01616604091 · info@gmyouthfed.org
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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data