CHICHESTER U3A

Registered charity 1037027 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHICHESTER UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (U3A)

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.

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: IN PRACTICE CHICHESTER AND SURROUNDING LOCALITY

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

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Registered contact address: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the financial position remains strong with total income of £38,024.25 and total expenditure of £38,001.85 for the year ending 31 March 2025. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £17,369, which the Treasurer describes as healthy and representing approximately 9.5 months of income. The organization reports a membership increase of 10% to 1,013 members during the year.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alistair Bennett
• Barry Edwin Easton
• Caroline Cooper
• Christian Gaze
• Isobel Glover
• Jacqueline Louise Easton
• Linda Nevill
• Patricia Sybil Lock
• Patrick Doyle
• Penelope Anne Blackmore
• Peter Robinson

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHESTER U3A.

• CHESTER U3A income £45k
• U3A CRANLEIGH AND DISTRICT AREA income £59k
• UPMINSTER U3A income £36k
• TOWCESTER U3A income £47k
• SAWBRIDGEWORTH U3A income £82k
• LINDSEY U3A income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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