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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

MANCHESTER CITY OF LITERATURE

Our vision is to create an innovative, distinctive, equitable, globally connected city of reading and writing. We want Manchester to be a city where diverse voices are celebrated, creative talent is nurtured and where literary activity changes lives. We do this by uniting the collective strength and voice of writers and all those involved in literary activities across Manchester.
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Positives:

  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£280£271£10n/a
31/03/22£250£269£-19n/a
31/03/21£160£141£20n/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.manchestercityofliterature.com

ivan.wadeson@manchester.gov.uk

01619538367

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Manchester City,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£94,920
The Foyle Foundation£12,500
National Lottery Heritage Fund£9,900
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£12,500 07/02/2023
towards the Sound It Out: Community Podcasting project
DCMS - Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants
£94,920 23/02/2022
National Lottery Project Grants is our open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Manchester City of Literature
£9,900 25/05/2021
Heritage Stories for Care and Recovery

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-59
  • CHANDAN SHERGILL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Coordinator
  • JESS EDWARDS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of English
  • JOHN MCAULIFFE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Lecturer
  • KATIE POPPERWELL (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Producer
  • MICHELLE COLLIER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Writer
  • MIKE MURPHY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Producer
  • RESHMA RUIA Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Writer
  • ROCHELLE SAUNDERS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Producer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/05/2020, number: 1189456
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/05/2019, number: 12002661
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • 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
3 returns made; AR23: 29 days late,
Main office

Spaces
125 Deansgate
MANCHESTER
M3 2BY

Objectives

THE CHARITY HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES:(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE ARTS, BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF OPPORTUNITIES TO DISCOVER, ACCESS, ENGAGE IN, LEARN ABOUT, UNDERSTAND AND ENJOY LITERATURE, WRITING, CREATIVITY, CULTURE AND HERITAGE; AND(2) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES THAT BENEFIT THE PUBLIC CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECT ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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