GREATER MANCHESTER ENVIRONMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1203198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GREATER MANCHESTER ENVIRONMENT FUND

The charity works to:1) preserve, protect and enhance the physical and natural environment and heritage of Greater Manchester and elsewhere.2) advance the conservation, protection and improvement of the environment for the benefit of the public.3) promote the provision of green space for the public to access.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:A) PRESERVING THE HERITAGE OF GREATER MANCHESTER AND ELSEWHERE THROUGH THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS OR SITES OF HISTORIC OR ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE; ANDB) ADVANCING THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING: I. THE REDUCTION AND LIMITATION OF AIR POLLUTION IN SUCH WAYS AS TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENCOURAGE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; II. THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR THE USE OF RENEWAL ENERGY;III. WASTE REDUCTION, REUSE, RECLAMATION, RECYCLING AND IMPROVED WASTE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES (IN EACH CASE AS A MEANS OF WASTE DISPOSAL); AND IV. THE RESTORATION OF ECOSYSTEMS AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; ANDC) PROMOTING THE PROVISION OF GREEN SPACE FOR THE PUBLIC TO ACCESS FOR RECREATION PURPOSES WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING HEALTH AND THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE."SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT" MEANS DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £140,084 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £947,157 to £807,073. The trustees confirm that the charity has sufficient resources to continue operating for at least twelve months, with unrestricted reserves of £29,194 held in liquid form. The charity relies on significant restricted funding from connected parties, including the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and SUEZ, to deliver its charitable activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA Audit Services LLP. 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

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.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 13464698

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Roger Pearson — Director (source)
• Sam Evans — Head of Natural Environment, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (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.

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.

• MURRAY, Deborah Jane — director, appointed 24/04/2026on trustee list
• ATHERTON, Mark Ernest — director, appointed 18/06/2021on trustee list
• BURDITT, Thomas Samuel Westpercott, Dr — director, appointed 18/06/2021on trustee list
• HATTON, Anthony Gerard — director, appointed 18/06/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Gerard Hatton
• Deborah Murray · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr THOMAS SAMUEL WESTPERCOTT BURDITT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Ernest Atherton

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• TEESSIDE ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST income £693k
• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• THE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE LTD income £440k
• COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST income £74k
• GLOBAL WITNESS TRUST income £2.5m
• THE WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK TRUST income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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