THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE

Registered charity 1043019 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TRAFFORD PARK MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE

Development and delivery of educational programmes including academic and vocational qualifications.Promoting manufacturing with young people and educators. Promoting public awareness of the physical and intellectual outputs of manufacturing and advocacy for the sector to the broader public.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ADMINISTERING AND RUNNING EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION BY PROVIDING TRAINING AND EDUCATION IN CONNECTION WITH ANY MATTER OR DISCIPLINE CONCERNED WITH MANUFACTURING INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION RUNNING EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES IN COLLABORATION WITH PERSONS CONNECTED WITH MANUFACTURING AND IN CONNECTION THEREWITH TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING FACILITIES AND TECHNIQUES

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£1.4m
Latest spending
£1.6m
Registered
1994

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Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2021

  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£80,001–£90,000: 1)
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2020

  • Volunteers: 60
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£80,001–£90,000: 1)
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2019

  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

4 annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Total income
£1.4m
Total spending
£1.6m
Cost of raising funds
£731k
Reserves (reported)
£0
Employees
11

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (77% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 52.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
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31/03/2021£1.4m£1.6m