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Registered charity · Manchester

M.G.S. Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £3.5m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
Where
Manchester City
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£3.5m£2.9m
  • 2023£2.8m£2.8m
  • 2022£2.5m£2.6m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.8m£2.4m
  • 2020£1.9m£2.3m
Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY EXPENDING THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND TO OR TOWARDS OR IN FURTHERANCE OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH ONE OR MORE EDUCATIONAL CHARITIES, EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE AS THE TRUSTEES SELECT OR THINK FIT.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

5 trustees on the board

7.8y median 8y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 5General Charitable Purposes 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.

Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.5m 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

0
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
526564
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 5 APRIL 1966 AND SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 12 JULY 1966 AS AMENDED ON 11 JANUARY 1999 BY A RESOLUTION PASSED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 74 OF THE CHARITIES ACT 1993.
Contact on the register
07814611352 · gill@gilliangriffiths.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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