THE GREATER MANCHESTER TRANSPORT SOCIETY

Registered charity 509772 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MANCHESTER MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT

The Greater Manchester Transport Society exists to maintain a museum for the purpose of advancing the education of the public in the nature of public transport within the United Kingdom and the historical development of all aspects of such public transport with particular emphasis upon the historical aspects of road passenger transport in the counties of Greater Manchester Cheshire and Lancashire.

Objects

TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A MUSEUM FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE NATURE OF PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE HISTORICAL DEVELPOMENT OF ALL ASPECTS OF SUCH PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN THE COUNTIES OF GREATER MANCHESTER, CHESHIRE AND LANCASHIRE AND THE TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN ROAD TRANSPORT RELATING TO THE NATURE, CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF ROAD VEHICLES GENERALLY

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £18,920 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £359,465. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £316,429, which exceeds the stated policy target of twelve months' unrestricted expenditure. The charity is eligible for independent examination rather than audit and has no disclosed material uncertainties regarding its continuing operations.

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 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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• DENNIS JOHN TALBOTchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ADAM STEPHENSON
• Carl Jarman
• Christopher Paul Charles Williams
• David John Birchall
• David Paul Hughes
• Emma Louise Flinn
• JOHN HUGH ALEXANDER POLLOCK
• JOHN SQUIRE CRANKSHAW
• KELVIN WILLIAM PLATT
• Mark Andrew Jones
• PAUL WOTTON
• Thomas Philip Cowling

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 GREATER MANCHESTER ENVIRONMENT TRUST.

• GREATER MANCHESTER ENVIRONMENT TRUST income £1.1m
• THE EAST ANGLIA TRANSPORT MUSEUM SOCIETY LIMITED income £273k
• GREATER MANCHESTER ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT LIMITED income £4.0m
• LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM FRIENDS income £218k
• GREATER MANCHESTER ARTS CENTRE LIMITED income £7.2m
• MANCHESTER CITY GALLERIES TRUST income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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