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Registered charity · Manchester

Chetham's Hospital School and Library

Chetham's Hospital School and Library is a registered charity (number 526702) based in Manchester, governed by 22 trustees. Latest income £14m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Chetham's Library, Chetham's School of Music (Charity Commission)

  • 22 trustees
  • Income £14m (2025)
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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
Website
www.chethams.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14m£16m
  • 2024£14m£16m
  • 2023£12m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2022£13m£13m
  • 2021£12m£12m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 53%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A DAY AND BOARDING SCHOOL FOR BOYS. A LIBRARY. MAINTENANCE OF THE PREMISES OF THE LIBRARY AND HOSPITAL PREMISES. AWARD OF SCHOLARSHIPS, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES, LEAVING EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER GRANTS.

Grants received

7 grants · £2,431,840 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

Most recent

  • Manchester Pride £1,0002023-06-16
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £66,4002020-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £173,2042019-04-01
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation £198,0002017-11-07
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £86,0002001-06-15
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.

5.2y median 5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.9y
average years in governance
6
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 22Education/training 22Environment/conservation/heritage 20Amateur Sport 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Arts and leisure 9Education 3Other services 3

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£14.4m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

6.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.6 in 2021

334 from 314 in 2021
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
526702
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME OF 27 MAY 1952 AS AMENDED BY SCHEME OF 22 OCTOBER 1969. ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS DATED 13 SEPTEMBER 2002.
Contact on the register
0161 834 9644 · chets@chethams.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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