MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL

Registered charity 1121276 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Production of annual Literature Festival and associated year round activities in district of Manchester.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE ARTS AND, IN PARTICULAR, LITERATURE IN SOCIETY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE NORTH WEST AREA OF ENGLAND (BY WHICH EXPRESSION IS MEANT THE COUNTIES OF CHESHIRE, LANCASHIRE, MERSEYSIDE, GREATER MANCHESTER AND THE HIGH PEAK DISTRICT OF DERBYSHIRE) AND ELSEWHERE BY DEVELOPING PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE AND BY PROVIDING PUBLIC ACCESS TO AND THE QUALITY OF LITERATURE AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY:-A) HOLDING LITERATURE FESTIVALS AND EVENTS AND, IN PARTICULAR, A "MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL" ANNUALLY;B) HOLDING OTHER LITERATURE EVENTS AND EVENTS THAT COMBINE LITERATURE WITH OTHER ART FORMS EITHER ANNUALLY OR AT ANY OTHER TIME;C) INVITING, COMMISSIONING AND MAINTAINING SERVICES OF WRITERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD WHETHER SUCH SERVICES REQUIRE THE PAYMENT OF FEES BY THE COMPANY OR OTHERWISE;D) ENCOURAGING AND ASSISTING IN PROMOTING AND ADVANCING WRITERS FROM THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND.E) PUBLISHING LITERATURE AND RECORDINGS OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER PROVIDING THAT IN SO DOING SUCH PUBLICATIONS COMPLY WITH ALL RELEVANT LAWS;F) DISSEMINATING INFORMATION, LITERATURE AND RECORDINGS RELATING TO ANY FESTIVALS HELD BY THE COMPANY OR IN WHICH THE COMPANY PARTICIPATES OR IS INVOLVED.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, GREATER MANCHESTER

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £132,275, with the trustees noting a plan to build further free reserves to smooth funding peaks and troughs. The charity reports a net income surplus of £10,948 for the year, funded by grants, donations, and trading activities. The trustees confirm that assets are adequate to fulfill obligations and have adopted the going concern basis, though they acknowledge dependency on uncertain future funding streams.

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 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
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• Financial reserves policy and procedures
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• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 14/05/2024, 104 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna-Maria Nugnes
• Benjamin James Ward · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bonnie Julia Turnbull
• CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM JEFFRIES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Andrew Peter Westle
• Erinn Kelly Roocroft
• Gwen Louise Oakden
• Hesham Samir Sabry
• Jo SOMERSET
• REBECCA LOUISE Parkinson
• Samuel Tovey Mr

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

Operates in: Manchester City

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MARLBOROUGH LITERATURE FESTIVAL.

• MARLBOROUGH LITERATURE FESTIVAL income £90k
• MANCHESTER CITY OF LITERATURE income £265k
• BURY ST EDMUNDS LITERATURE FESTIVAL income £34k
• THE FESTIVAL OF CHICHESTER income £32k
• LANCASTER AND DISTRICT FESTIVAL LIMITED income £92k
• STRATFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL income £307k

Side by side with its peers

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