MANCHESTER SETTLEMENT

Registered charity 228577 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To develop projects that promote health and education reducing poverty and deprivation

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND ALL OTHER MEASURES FOR THE SOCIAL WELFARE OF THE POORER RESIDENTS IN THE CITY OF MANCHESTER AND NEIGHBOURING DISTRICTS

Area of benefit: CITY OF MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year in a very positive financial position with a surplus for the year. Free reserves of £864,681 are reported, which the trustees confirm are within their stated target range for free reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from more than £60,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Inspection and regulatory ratings

Matched to this charity by name; verify provider identity on the regulator’s site.

• Ofsted — Manchester Settlement: Good · Ofsted

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Manchester Settlement (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Adrian Ball — Chief Executive (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £442k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~31.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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

• Maria Lesterchair
• DAVID BLACK
• MARTIN SUTTON
• Marcelina Stengert · trustee of 1 other charity
• Naomi Asvowo Eyo Osundiya
• PHILIP LUKES
• Sarah Fayette · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vicky Williams

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 MANCHESTER UNITED FOUNDATION.

• MANCHESTER UNITED FOUNDATION income £8.7m
• MANCHESTER STREET POEM income £28k
• MANCHESTER CHARITABLE TRUST LTD income £154k
• ACTIVITEENS income £144k
• MANCHESTER SIKH FOUNDATION income £204k
• MANCHESTER CITY F.C. CITY IN THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £4.3m

Side by side with its peers

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