UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE FARNBOROUGH AND DISTRICT

Registered charity 1025969 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as U 3 A FARNBOROUGH

A learning cooperative for retired people, enabling its members to share many educational, creative and leisure activities.

Objects

1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR THE EDUCATION OF MIDDLE AGED AND OLDER PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT IN FULL TIME GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT IN FARNBOROUGH AND ITS SURROUNDING LOCALITY 2 THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR LEISURE TIME AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE ABOVE PERSONS IN THE INTERESTS OF THEIR SOCIAL WELFARE

Area of benefit: FARNBOROUGH AND SURROUNDING AREA

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a cash surplus on core activities of £16,589 and accumulated reserves of £39,107. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are sufficient to cover 11.0 months of expenditure, significantly exceeding the Charity Commission's recommendation of four to six months. The charity notes that this exceptional level of financial health is not expected to continue growing.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• JEREMY PETER CARLSSONchair
• David Minett
• Ian Michael Hutchings
• Judith Ann Layzell
• Pamela Maureen Hay
• Paul Stephen Banner
• Peter Francis Wickwar

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Surrey

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).