THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 235313 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q3285345 · Wikipedia · also known as MANCHESTER LIT AND PHIL, THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSPHICAL SOCIETY

Across the calendar year, the Society delivers an eclectic range of lectures and seminars. We offer a focal point for modern, bright ideas, drawing inspiration from a variety of subject areas including the Arts, Science and Technology, and Social Philosophy. We also present a programme specifically aimed at young people, with a view to increasing their interest in and awareness of the world.

Objects

PROMOTING THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE WIDENING OF PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE APPRECIATION OF ANY FORM OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, THE ARTS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROVIDED THAT NO ACTIVITY INVOLVING PARTY POLITICS OR CONTROVERSIAL THEOLOGY SHALL BE INCLUDED IN THE PURSUIT OF THESE OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

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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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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 30/06/2022 (received 14/06/2023, 45 days after the 30/04/2023 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Wrightchair
• Alan Wareham
• Alison Carey
• Celia Baker
• Dhun Daji
• Dr Eda Gliga-Baubec
• Dr Susan Hilton
• Jacqueline Hughes-Lundy
• Jonathan Sime
• Martin John Hunt
• Michael Kia-Shu Tso
• Peter Carstensen
• Rowan Jae Moony
• Sabine Flitsch
• Susan Margaret Cameron · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Alexander Whitehead

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Derbyshire · Lancashire · Manchester City

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