Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 6
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

MANCHESTER JEWISH MUSEUM 

The museum preserves and promotes Manchester?s rich and diverse Jewish heritage. Its permanent gallery tells the story of the Jewish community from the 1740s to 1945.Formal and informal learning sessions are regularly held inside the museum as are exhibitions and events, helping to promote tolerance and understanding of Jewish faith, heritage and culture.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 10 years

www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com

admin@manchesterjewishmuseum.com

01618349879

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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£642£824£-182£41£4,582£1011.51250
31/03/22£619£898£-279£99£4,764£1301.71361
31/03/21£2,776£334£2,443£31£5,043£1505.4740
31/03/20£1,803£362£1,440£40£2,600£1204540
31/03/19£763£345£418£49£1,160£1214.2682
31/03/18£747£199£547£15£742£563.450
31/03/17£465£147£318£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£288£297£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£181£204£-24£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 6.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 1%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 2%
Reserves/Spending: 1.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 2.9
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 12 employees
  • 50 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Bury, Lancashire, Manchester City,

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£156,023
Wolfson Foundation£50,000
The Pilgrim Trust£20,000
The Rayne Foundation£10,000
Manchester City Council£8,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Manchester Jewish Museum
£50,000 09/12/2020
WF Covid-19 Support Fund
Manchester City Council - Grant to Manchester Jewish Museum
£4,000 30/06/2020
Cultural partnership Agreements. The purpose of the funding is to support cultural organisations in Manchester City which are delivering against the City's priorities and meeting the themes of the ....more
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Manchester Jewish Museum
£20,000 04/06/2020
2
Mediterranean Manchester: Preserving Moorish architecture in Manchester’s oldest synagogue
Manchester City Council - Grant to Manchester Jewish Museum
£4,000 01/06/2020
Funding is to support cultural organisations in Manchester City which are delivering against the City's priorities and meeting the themes of the Cultural Ambition
DCMS - Manchester Jewish Museum
£112,024 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of ....more
DCMS - Manchester Jewish Museum
£43,999 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Manchester Jewish Museum
£10,000 16/07/2019
24
Towards addressing growing racial intolerance in Greater Manchester through the recruitment, training and support of non-Jewish volunteers from local migrant communities.
Manchester City Council - Grant to Manchester Jewish Museum
£4,000 01/04/2018
Cultural Partnership Agreement grant to fund and support cultural organisations that contribute to making Manchester a thriving, attractive and equitable city with high quality cultural experiences ....more
Manchester City Council - Grant to Manchester Jewish Museum
£4,000 01/04/2018
Cultural Partnership Agreement grant to fund and support cultural organisations that contribute to making Manchester a thriving, attractive and equitable city with high quality cultural experiences ....more
Manchester City Council - Grant to Manchester Jewish Museum
£4,000 01/04/2018
Cultural Partnership Agreement grant to fund and support cultural organisations that contribute to making Manchester a thriving, attractive and equitable city with high quality cultural experiences ....more
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND - NPO 2018-22: Band 1
£110,000 01/04/2018
11
National portfolio organisation- are leaders in their areas, with a collective responsibility to protect and develop our national arts and cultural ecology.
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND - Developing a Resilient Jewish Museum
£22,000 05/01/2018
12
We will become an NPO in 2018 and are about to embark on a £5million capital project, opening a new museum in 2020. To help us manage, resource and sustain such major ‘step changes’ we are ....more
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Manchester Jewish Museum
£80,000 16/06/2017
Refurbishment and new gallery
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 24-79
  • EMILY HIRST Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Charity Worker
  • HELEN JENKINS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Fundraising Consultant
  • JO SCORAH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Artist
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/10/2013, number: 1154353
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/01/2013, number: 08370403
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • 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
9 returns made; AR15: 12 days late,
Main office

MANCHESTER JEWISH MUSEUM
190 CHEETHAM HILL ROAD
MANCHESTER
M8 8LW

Objectives

To advance education for the public benefit by managing and maintaining a museum collection and historic synagogue and by bringing together people of all ages, faiths and backgrounds to share stories of Jewish Manchester and other faiths in order to promote tolerance and a culturally diverse society for the benefit of the public.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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