Registered charity · Lancs

Bury Metropolitan Arts Association

12 trustees
Income £1.2m (2025)

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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th 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: Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where: Bury
Website: www.themet.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Bury Metropolitan Arts Association
Registered: 1989

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£1.2m£1.2m
2024£1.0m£1.1m
2023£810k£758k

Earlier years

2022£810k£758k
2021£886k£679k

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE FURTHERANCE OF THE PERFORMING AND ARTISTIC ARTS AND BY INCREASING THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THE ARTS AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF BURY.

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.

12 trustees on the board

3.3y median 3y

average tenure

10y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Lynsay Karen Robinson Chair since 2019
Victoria Robinson since 2016

3.5y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

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 12

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 14Other services 1

Gaps to watch

Narrow spread of causes across the board

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

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2025

incomespending£1.2m 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.

2.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.1 in 2021

13 from 18 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: 701879
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 11 APRIL 1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08 JUN 2016 as amended on 13 Jul 2020
Companies House: Company number 02370868 · Active
Contact on the register: 01617617107 · admin@themet.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 13th 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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