MANCHESTER COLLECTIVE

Registered charity 1167125 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting the arts, particularly music, through the presentation of public recitals and concerts.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1) TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP, AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS AND BY SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE CIO THROUGH ITS TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME;(2) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £11,542 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total incoming resources of £714,442. Unrestricted reserves stood at £220,876, which is above the trustees' policy target of £130,000 (equivalent to three months of core costs). The trustees confirmed the charity remains a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Classical at Aviva Studios: Factory International presents BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Collective, ENO & more planethugill.com · 05/05/2026

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (62% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID MCKEITHchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ainsleigh Alexandra Hennig
• Karen Alexandra Saint
• Nicolas Bush · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Kirsty Fairclough
• Richard Sheldon
• Sara Margaret Nolan

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 THE MANCHESTER COMMUNITY AND YOUTH PROJECT.

• THE MANCHESTER COMMUNITY AND YOUTH PROJECT income £480k
• LONDON CONCERT CHOIR income £93k
• MANCHESTER STREET POEM income £28k
• MANCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE income £492k
• MANCHESTER CITY GALLERIES TRUST income £1.6m
• MANCHESTER COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD income £664k

Side by side with its peers

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