UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE - YORK

Registered charity 1007843 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YORK BRANCH OF U3A, YORK U3A

Our u3a offers learning activities which reflect members wishes and which aim to satisfy the widest possible range of interests; educational, cultural, recreational, physical and social.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE EDUCATION OF OLDER PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO ARE RETIRED FROM FULL TIME WORK, BY ALL MEANS INCLUDING ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES CONDUCIVE TO LEARNING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.

Area of benefit: YORK AND THE SURROUNDING LOCALITY

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total receipts for the period were £140,928, while total payments amounted to £127,739, resulting in a net surplus of £13,189. The charity holds unrestricted cash funds of £124,367 at the end of the period, with no reported liabilities or investment assets. The trustees have signed the accounts, indicating compliance with filing requirements for this specific document.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Karen Jane Sawyerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alice Mary Teresa Morwood-Leyland · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Pilot
• JENNIFER SLEE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Quinton Charles Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samantha Triggs · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHRISTCHURCH UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE.

• CHRISTCHURCH UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £137k
• MILTON KEYNES U3A (UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE) income £116k
• WOKINGHAM UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £156k
• STAFFORD UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (U3A) income £90k
• BARNET U3A income £135k
• THE THIRD AGE TRUST income £3.5m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.