PEOPLE'S VOICE MEDIA

Registered charity 1059681 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as M C I N, MANCHESTER COMMUNITY INFORMATION NETWORK

Our activities support people to improve their lives and bring about positive social change from the ground up. They support people to develop new skills, enhance their health and well-being and become more economically stable. Our main activity is Community Reporting.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION, TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH AND TO RELIEVE POVERTY OF THE PUBLIC IN ENGLAND BY THE PROVISION OF FREE AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION ABOUT CHARITABLE, VOLUNTARY, HEALTH AND PUBLIC SERVICES.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with a small deficit of £4,256, having spent £188,112 against income of £183,856. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £276,785, which is above the stated policy target of approximately six months of running costs (£90,000). The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern with sufficient funds to cover support and governance costs.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03083575

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BAILEY, Charlotte Anne — director, appointed 07/10/2026on trustee list
• TROWBRIDGE, Hayley Elizabeth — director, appointed 24/04/2025on trustee list
• ABLE, Laura — director, appointed 23/10/2024on trustee list
• WALES, Helen — director, appointed 23/10/2024on trustee list
• SERGEANT, Paula Michelle Denise — director, appointed 01/09/2019on trustee list
• TROWBRIDGE, Hayley — secretary, appointed 18/09/2019

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · linkedin

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anton Roberts
• Charlotte Anne Bailey
• Hayley Elizabeth Trowbridge
• Helen Wales
• Laura Able
• Paula Michelle Denise Sergeant

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VOICE: LOCAL.

• VOICE: LOCAL income £137k
• GATHERING VOICES LIMITED income £63k
• PEOPLE IN ACTION income £11.4m
• Amplifying Voices income £173k
• VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY income £15.9m
• BLACK VOICES CORNWALL income £180k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.