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George House Trust

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ136171336 ↗
Source-derived summary

George House Trust is a charity based in Manchester supporting people affected by HIV, established in 1985 as the Manchester AIDSLine. It changed its name to the George House Trust in 1992.

In 2025 it was awarded a mark of excellence.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 1992, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, George, House and Trust is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “George House Trust” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.