Charitable status

The University of Manchester's status as an exempt charity is derived from the Charities Act 1993. We are responsible to HEFCE, which is charged, as our principal regulator, with monitoring our compliance with charity law obligations.

The University is aware of its responsibilities as a charity to act for the public benefit and has had due regard to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance. The objects of the University, as set out in the Royal Charter awarded in 2004, are “to advance education, knowledge and wisdom by research, scholarship, learning and teaching, for the benefit of individuals and society at large".

• Download the University’s statement on public benefit as a PDF document (extracted from the financial statements for the year ended 31 July 2011) 121KB

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Corporate documents

The full financial statements for the year ended 31 July 2011 and the University Charter are available to download from the publications area of the website.

Trustees of the University

The trustees of the University as at 31 July 2011 were as follows:

• Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell FRS FMedSci, President and Vice-Chancellor
• Ms Letty Newton, General Secretary of the Students’ Union
• Mr Anil Ruia OBE JP DL, Chair of the Board of Governors
• Mrs Gillian Easson, Deputy Chair of the Board of Governors
• Mr Stephen Dauncey
• Mr Robert E Hough DL
• Dame Susan Ion OBE
• Councillor Mohammed Afzal Khan CBE
• Mr Paul Lee
• Mrs Christine Lee-Jones
• Dr Keith Lloyd
• Mr Peter H Readle
• Mr Neville Richardson FCA
• Dr Brenda Smith
• Dr John Stageman OBE
• Mr Gerry Yeung OBE
• Dr Stuart Allan
• Professor Colette Fagan
• Professor Maggie Gale
• Professor Andrew Gibson
• Professor Nancy Papalopulu
• Professor Chris Taylor
• Dr Pamela Vallely
• Mr Edward Mark Glass
• Dr Andrew Walsh

The following members of the Board of Governors have declared trusteeships as follows:

Name	Trusteeships
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice-Chancellor	Member, Manchester International Festival Board
Professor Rod Coombs, Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor	Non Executive Director, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Mrs Gillian Easson	Deputy Chairman, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Colette Fagan	Elected office, Chair of Board of Governors Chorlton Church of England Primary School
Mr Robert E Hough	Trustee, The Greater Manchester High Sheriff’s Police Trust
Mr Paul Lee	Chairman, Royal Exchange Theatre Feoffee (Trustee), Chetham's School of Music
Mrs Christine Lee-Jones	Non-Executive Director, Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Foundation Trust
Ms Letty Newton	Chair of Trustees and General Secretary, University of Manchester Students’ Union
Dr Brenda Smith	Non Executive Director, Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust

The correspondence address of the University is:

The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL

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