{"id":84,"date":"2016-07-07T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T10:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/school.chethams.com\/about\/governance\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:17:07","slug":"governance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/about\/governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Registered Charity Number 526702<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chetham\u2019s consists of three separate and distinct charities that make up the Chetham&#8217;s Foundation. There is no formal legal identity for the Foundation but it is a useful way of describing the organisation as a whole.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chetham\u2019s Hospital<\/strong> <em>(land and buildings)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chetham\u2019s School of Music<\/strong> <em>(evolved from Chetham\u2019s School for 40 poor boys)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chetham\u2019s Library <\/strong><em>(housed in the medieval buildings)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Foundation is registered under one Charity Number, following a Uniting Direction issued by the Charity Commission in 2004 for registration and accounting purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The Hospital and Library charities have the same trustees, known as the Feoffees, and the School Charity has its own trustees, the School Governing Body.\u00a0 <em>See below for the current School Governors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The full name of this charitable foundation is &#8216;The Hospital and Library in Manchester founded by Humphrey Chetham, Esq. and Incorporated by King Charles II<\/p>\n<p><strong>Organisational information<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chethams.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/Chethams-School-of-Music-gender-pay-gap-report-for-2025-26-reporting-year.pdf\">Gender Pay Gap Statement 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registered Charity Number 526702 Chetham\u2019s consists of three separate and distinct charities that make up the Chetham&#8217;s Foundation. There is no formal legal identity for the Foundation but it is a useful way of describing the organisation as a whole. Chetham\u2019s Hospital (land and buildings) Chetham\u2019s School of Music (evolved from Chetham\u2019s School for 40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104207,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/104207"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}