GREATER MANCHESTER ARTS CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 514719 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CORNERHOUSE, CORNERHOUSE PUBLICATIONS

The objects of the Charity are to promote, maintain, improve and advance education, particularly by the encouragement of the arts. This includes the arts of cinema, photography, painting and sculpture and including all other arts of a visual nature provided that all the objects of the Company shall be of a charitable nature.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF CINEMA, DRAMA, DANCE, PHOTOGRAPHY, PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND IN PARTICULAR ALL OTHER ARTS OF A VISUAL NATURE PROVIDED THAT ALL OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

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 · 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 group reported a net income of £573,692 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total net assets of £2,900,435. The trustees confirm that free general reserves of £1,603,328 exceed the stated policy target of £950,000, and they have a reasonable expectation of adequate resources to continue in operational existence.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hurst Accountants Limited. Discloses 3 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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.

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 31/03/2024 (received 04/02/2025, 4 days after the 31/01/2025 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01681278 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Leri Charitable Trust — “PROJECT SUPPORTERS        The Leri Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Baker Family Charitable Trust — “HOME ARCHES FUNDERS Baker Family Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Founding supporters  Garfield Weston Foundation” (source page)
• The Granada Foundation — “Founding supporters  Garfield Weston Foundation The Granada Foundation” (source page)

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.

• ALDRIDGE, Corinne — director, appointed 31/07/2026on trustee list
• THOMPSON-SMITH, Darius Ryan — director, appointed 31/07/2025not on trustee list
• MORGAN, Jonathan David — director, appointed 14/11/2024on trustee list
• BRADBURY, Sara Kate — director, appointed 14/11/2024on trustee list
• RASHID, Aziz Din — director, appointed 14/11/2024on trustee list
• WILSON, Claire Louise — director, appointed 31/10/2024on trustee list
• PRENDERGAST, Martin Denis — director, appointed 01/09/2023on trustee list
• MACKENZIE, Ross — director, appointed 20/04/2023on trustee list
• JACOB, Kathryn Margaret — director, appointed 22/10/2021on trustee list
• RICHES, Caroline Isabella — secretary, appointed 01/05/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (48% 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: 7.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• KATHRYN MARGARET JACOBchair
• Aziz Din RASHID
• Claire Lousie WILSON
• Corinne Aldridge
• Darius Ryan Thompson- Smith
• Jonathan David MORGAN
• Martin Denis Prendergast
• ROSS MACKENZIE
• Sara Kate BRADBURY

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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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 THE LONDON MUSICAL THEATRE ORCHESTRA.

• THE LONDON MUSICAL THEATRE ORCHESTRA income £392k
• MANCHESTER CITY GALLERIES TRUST income £1.6m
• NEW CURATORS income £959k
• GRAND UNION ARTS CIO income £1.3m
• ARTS AND CRAFTS COMMUNITY CENTRE income £40k
• COLCHESTER MERCURY THEATRE LIMITED income £5.8m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.