MANCHESTER ACTION ON STREET HEALTH
Registered charity 1051754 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q20876916 · Wikipedia · also known as MASH
MASH works with female sex workers to promote sexual health, wellbeing and personal safety whilst offering choice, support and empowerment to promote individual positive life changes
Objects
TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY WOMEN, IN THE GREATER MANCHESTER AREA WHO ARE, MAY BECOME, OR HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN THE SEX INDUSTRY FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED; RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE “SOCIALLY EXCLUDED” MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS:1. UNEMPLOYMENT 2. FINANCIAL HARDSHIP 3. SUBSTANCE MISUSE OR DEPENDENCY 4. POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT 5. RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN 6. HOMELESSNESS 7. DISCRIMINATION 8. CRIME (EITHER AS VICTIM OR AS OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND COUNSELLING, PASTORAL AND PRACTICAL CARE AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE ISSUES SURROUNDING WOMEN AND PROSTITUTION.
Area of benefit: MANCHESTER AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts
Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The charity reported a surplus of £104,622 for the year, with total income of £1,509,268 against expenditure of £1,404,646. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £518,803, which the trustees state equates to six months of core charitable expenditure, meeting their stated reserves policy target. The accounts were audited with a clean opinion and no material uncertainties regarding going concern were identified.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: six months of core charitable expenditure (held: £519k)
“The charity aims to maintain free reserves in unrestricted funds at a level that equates to six months of core charitable expenditure.” — page 11
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Collette Cronshaw received £nil (2024: £828) in respect of lived experience consultancy fees.
“during the year, Collette Cronshaw did receive fnil (2024: £828) in respect of lived experience consultancy fees.” — page 24
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by McKellens Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
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.
- 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
- 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
From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)
Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 60
- Government income: £878,861 — contracts £352,177 (5), grants £526,684 (14); 58% of the £1,509,268 total gross income on the same return
- Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; other trustee benefit
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 38
- Government income: £933,095 — contracts £372,611 (6), grants £560,484 (17); 70% of the £1,337,276 total gross income on the same return
- Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; other trustee benefit
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 47
- Government income: £648,860 — contracts £219,686 (3), grants £429,174 (12); 65% of the £997,798 total gross income on the same return
Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — MASH (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Jackie Driver — Chair (source)
- Louisa Baxter — Vice chair (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£61k
Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).
- Andrea Anderson
- Helen Clayton
- Iram Kiani
- Jackie Driver
- Katherine Edmondson
- Louisa Baxter
- Naeed Nadia Khan
- Rachel Hurst · trustee of 1 other charity
- Sarah Miguel
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Bury · Lancashire · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale
Income and spending
Common questions
Is MANCHESTER ACTION ON STREET HEALTH financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reported a surplus of £104,622 for the year, with total income of £1,509,268 against expenditure of £1,404,646. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £518,803, which the trustees state equates to six months of core charitable expenditure, meeting their stated reserves policy target. The accounts were audited with a clean opinion and no material uncertainties regarding going concern were identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by McKellens Ltd.
Who funds MANCHESTER ACTION ON STREET HEALTH?
Funders whose own accounts filings name MANCHESTER ACTION ON STREET HEALTH as a grant recipient include THE PILGRIM TRUST, The Leathersellers' Foundation, EDWARD HOLT TRUST, CRH CHARITABLE TRUST, ROSA FUND.
Known funders
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