CHETHAM'S HOSPITAL SCHOOL AND LIBRARY

Registered charity 526702 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHETHAM'S LIBRARY, CHETHAM'S SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Latest income
£14.4m
Latest spending
£16.2m
Registered
1964

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Total income
£14.4m
Total spending
£16.2m
Cost of raising funds
£1.3m
Reserves (reported)
£8.0m
Employees
334

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Trustees

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£14.4m£16.2m
31/08/2024£13.9m£15.8m
31/08/2023£12.3m£13.6m
31/08/2022£13.3m£12.6m
31/08/2021£11.9m£12.1m

Common questions

Who funds CHETHAM'S HOSPITAL SCHOOL AND LIBRARY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CHETHAM'S HOSPITAL SCHOOL AND LIBRARY as a grant recipient include THE HAWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST, THE BEAVERBROOKS CHARITABLE TRUST, THE ALBERT AND EUGENIE FROST MUSIC TRUST CIO.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund15/06/2001£86k"Chetham's Library: The Nineteenth Century Collections"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund09/02/2001£81k"Gorton Chained Library"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund23/01/1996£1.8m"Chetham's Library, Long Millgate"