GREATER MANCHESTER FIRE SERVICE MUSEUM TRUST

Registered charity 1189175 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FIREGROUND

The Trust maintains a museum of firefighting in the Greater Manchester region. It manages a collection of fire engines, equipment, uniforms, medals etc, which is open to the public. The operation is run entirely by volunteers. Working in partnership with the Fire and Rescue Service, it also operates a dedicated education programme for schools.

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES IN GREATER MANCHESTER AND TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ARTEFACTS AND OTHER ASSOCIATED ITEMS IN CONNECTION WITH THE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES.(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN FIRE SAFETY.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust operated satisfactorily with no financial issues of concern. The charity reported total income of £158,842.42 against total expenditure of £129,474.37, resulting in a surplus. Cash in hand increased from £186,408.44 at the start of the year to £215,776.49 at the end.

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.

• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Williamschair
• JOHN ERNEST GODMAN
• James Francis McCullagh
• Leslie Arthur Reid
• Muhammad Adnan Nawaz Chaudhry
• Nigel Tansley
• Robert Frank Bonner
• Stephen Swallow
• William Ronald McGregor

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wigan

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS TRUST.

• BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS TRUST income £12.6m
• THE FIRE SERVICE RESEARCH AND TRAINING TRUST income £223k
• THE GREATER MANCHESTER HIGH SHERIFF'S POLICE TRUST income £204k
• THE GREATER MANCHESTER TRANSPORT SOCIETY income £263k
• THE WEST HOUSE AND HEATH ROBINSON MUSEUM TRUST income £235k
• MANCHESTER CHARITABLE TRUST LTD income £154k

Side by side with its peers

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