Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 2
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

GREATER MANCHESTER BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED 

Building preservation
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£13£28£-14n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£47£25£21n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£53£18£35n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/20*£25£24£1n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/03/19£459£26£433n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/18*£210£11£199£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£11£11£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£30£17£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£7£9£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£6£13£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£21£13£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£5£12£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£3£6£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£0£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£0£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£0£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/06£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 19 years

01282661704

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
DCMS - Long Street Methodist Church, Middleton
£11,250 25/01/2021
Masonry repairs to the chimney stack.. The wider aim of the scheme is: This scheme is part of the Culture Recovery Fund, the Governments £1.57 billion support package to protect the countrys ....more
DCMS - Long Street Methodist Church, Middleton
£3,750 25/01/2021
Masonry repairs to the chimney stack.. The wider aim of the scheme is: This scheme is part of the Culture Recovery Fund, the Governments £1.57 billion support package to protect the countrys ....more
DCMS - Long Street Methodist Church, Middleton, Manchester
£8,288 01/04/2019
Remove vegetation, repair and replace rainwater goods, secure masonry, repair windows

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-79
  • MARK S WATSON Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired/Part Time Photographer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/08/2005, number: 1110675
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/12/2004, number: 05321354
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
18 returns made; AR23: 28 days late, AR20: 11 days late, AR18: 140 days late, AR16: 32 days late, AR15: 4 days late, AR14: 61 days late, AR07: 1 days late,
Main office

Edgar Wood Centre
Long Street
Middleton
MANCHESTER
M24 5UE

Objectives

TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF GREATER MANCHESTER AND OF THE NATION, THE HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE THAT MAY EXIST IN AND AROUND GREATER MANCHESTER IN BUILDINGS (INCLUDING ANY STRUCTURE OR ERECTION, AND ANY PART OF ANY BUILDINGS AS SO DEFINED) OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER MANCHESTER

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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