THE HULME HALL TRUST FOUNDATION

Registered charity 526647 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objects of Hulme Hall Trust Foundation are:The provision of assistance for higher education by means of grants to be awarded to students at the University of Manchester, including post-graduate and research students, and with preference for residents of Hulme Hall.The provision of benefits in connection with Hulme Hall (which includes the chapel and chaplaincy)

Objects

A) THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION BY MEANS OF EXHIBITIONS TO BE AWARDED TO YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO AR ABOUT TO BE ENGAGED IN A COURSE OF STUDY AT MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INCLUDING POST GRADUATE AND RESEARCH STUDENTS. B) THE PROVISION OF BENEFITS IN CONNECTION WITH HULME HALL, WHICH BENEFITS MAY INCLUDE THE PURCHASE OF BOOKS FOR THE LIBRARY, AND PURCHASE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, THE MAINTENANCE OF FACILITIES FOR GAMES AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE CHAPEL AND OF DIVINE SERVICE THERIN AND THE REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE CHAPEL.

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.

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Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is winding up following a merger with Hulme Trust Estates (Educational) effective 30 June 2025. Consequently, the financial statements are prepared on a non-going concern basis, with all remaining costs and liabilities to wind up the foundation provided for. The charity's unrestricted reserves and permanent endowment fund are reported as nil following the transfer of assets to the merging entity.

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 4 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2025 (received 16/06/2026, 47 days after the 30/04/2026 due date); year ending 30/06/2021 (received 09/05/2022, 9 days after the 30/04/2022 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

• RICHARD YOUNGchair
• DR GARETH EDWARD HUGHES
• Michael Andrew Mercer
• REVD REVD GOMERSALL
• SUSAN JEE
• The Right Reverend Mark Davies · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Manchester City

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