MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Organising and staging a biennial arts festival of performances, exhibitions and special events, commissioning new work for the public benefit. Organising and staging performances between Festivals. Touring selected commissions to venues and arts festivals in the UK and the rest of the world. In 2023 we transitioned to our permanent venue in Manchester -Aviva Studios,home of Factory International.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
Total income:
£28,253,414
Donations and legacies | £19.04m | |
Charitable activities | £5.23m | |
Other trading activities | £3.92m | |
Investments | £61.39k | |
Other | £0 |
Total expenditure:
£30,957,443
Raising funds | £5.65m | |
Charitable activities | £25.31m | |
Other | £0 |
£0 investments gains (losses)
Total income includes £18,556,695 from 5 government grant(s)
Charitable expenditure
Charitable expenditure with investment gains
Charitable expenditure
Some charities generate all, or a substantial part, of their income from investments which may have been donated to the charity as endowment or set aside by the charity from its own resources in the past. Such investments usually take the form of stocks and shares but may include other assets, such as property, that are capable of generating income and/or capital growth.
In managing their spending and investments charities need to strike a balance between the needs of future and current beneficiaries. They also need to take account of spending commitments that may stretch over a number of future years. To do this, charities will normally adopt an investment strategy designed to generate both income and capital growth. To maximise returns trustees may commit to investment strategies for several years.
Investments can experience large swings in value so trustees may, in a particular year, decide to realise and spend part of their charity’s capital or to invest part of its income.
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Raising funds and other expenditure | £5.65m | |
Charitable expenditure | £25.31m |
People

221 Employee(s)
20 Trustee(s)
498 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
Number of employees | |
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£60k to £70k | 5 |
£70k to £80k | 3 |
£90k to £100k | 3 |
£110k to £120k | 2 |
£140k to £150k | 1 |
Fundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- The General Public/mankind
- Provides Services
- Bolton
- Bury
- Manchester City
- Oldham
- Rochdale
- Salford City
- Stockport
- Tameside
- Trafford
- Wigan
Governance
- 26 April 2006: Standard registration
- MIF (Working name)
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- 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
- 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
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
20 Trustee(s)
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Moira Sinclair | Chair | 01 March 2024 |
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THOM HETHERINGTON | Trustee | 03 March 2025 |
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Lemn Sissay OBE FRSL | Trustee | 03 March 2025 |
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Leila Louisa Anne Alexander | Trustee | 03 March 2025 |
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John Bernard Dunleavy | Trustee | 03 March 2025 |
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Joshua Jack Wilkinson | Trustee | 03 March 2025 |
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Candice Marie Hull | Trustee | 03 March 2025 |
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Garry Bridges | Trustee | 28 May 2024 |
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Sharon Watson | Trustee | 21 September 2022 |
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Dabboussy Lamia | Trustee | 02 March 2022 |
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PATRICIA BARTOLI | Trustee | 02 March 2022 |
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Laura Jordan Bambach | Trustee | 02 March 2022 |
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Fazeel Barber | Trustee | 02 March 2022 |
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Shaminder Nahal | Trustee | 28 April 2021 |
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Joanne Louise Whitfield CBE | Trustee | 22 April 2020 |
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Ngozi Ugochukwu | Trustee | 22 April 2020 |
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Jamil Khalil | Trustee | 01 October 2017 |
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Charles Richard Bell | Trustee | 01 October 2017 |
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CATHRYN WRIGHT | Trustee | 27 September 2017 |
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Alan John Bishop | Trustee | 27 September 2017 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
Income / Expenditure | 30/09/2019 | 30/09/2020 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £17.70m | £12.80m | £20.20m | £13.90m | £29.25m | |
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Total expenditure | £17.02m | £6.64m | £18.84m | £12.04m | £30.96m | |
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Income from government contracts | £80.20k | N/A | £363.19k | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | £11.05m | £10.35m | £17.41m | £11.63m | £18.56m | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £10.97m | £10.38k | £17.98m | £12.07m | £19.04m | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £81.05k | £0 | £48.20k | £104.19k | £3.92m | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £6.63m | £12.75m | £2.09m | £1.61m | £5.23m | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Investment | £28.38k | £39.40k | £82.38k | £125.09k | £61.39k | |
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Income - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £16.46m | £6.08m | £17.95m | £10.61m | £25.31m | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £564.07k | £560.74k | £893.42k | £1.43m | £5.65m | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £70.08k | £142.76k | £253.86k | £1.15m | £2.13m | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
Assets and liabilities
Definitions for assets and liabilities
These are assets, other than investments, which are held for more than 12 months and used to run and administer the charity such as buildings, offices, exhibits and fixtures and fittings.
Long term InvestmentsInvestments are assets held by the charity with the sole aim of generating income which will be used for their charitable purposes such as deposit accounts, shares, rental property and unit trusts.
Investment assets are re-valued every year and included in the balance sheet at their current market value.
Long term investments are held for more than 12 months.
These are assets held generally for less than 12 months such as cash and bank balances, debtors, investments to be sold within the coming year and trading stock.
Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liabilityThis is a surplus or deficit in any defined benefit pension scheme operated and represents a potential long-term asset or liability.
Total liabilitiesThese are all the amounts owed by the charity at the balance sheet date to third parties such as bills due but not yet paid, bank overdrafts and loans and mortgages.
Asset / Liability | 30/09/2019 | 30/09/2020 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Own use assets | £71.76k | £5.06m | £455.09k | £3.42m | £11.59m | |
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Long-term investments | £0 | £0 | £5.00m | £3.00m | £0 | |
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Other assets | £6.44m | £6.08m | £7.20m | £9.84m | £7.83m | |
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Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Total liabilities | £2.50m | £955.66k | £981.44k | £2.48m | £5.77m |
Accounts and annual returns
Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 27 December 2024 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 27 December 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 28 March 2024 | 57 days late | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 28 March 2024 | 57 days late | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 31 January 2023 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 31 January 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 30 September 2020 | 26 July 2021 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 September 2020 | 26 July 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 30 September 2019 | 16 July 2020 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 September 2019 | 16 July 2020 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Governing document
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 22 NOVEMBER 2004 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 18 JULY 2008. NOW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED 17 FEBRUARY 2011.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) MUSIC, OPERA, DANCE, SINGING, DANCING, LITERATURE AND THE VISUAL ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) THE HOLDING OF FESTIVALS OF CULTURE, IDEAS AND CREATIVITY
Area of benefit
NATIONAL
Contact information
- Address:
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AVIVA Studios
Water Street
Manchester
M3 4JQ
- Phone:
- 01618174500
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