FUSION UK

Registered charity 1073572 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FUSION, FUSION NATIONAL STUDENT INITIATIVE

The charity resources and provides one-to-one services to local church communities that enables an understanding of university student culture and allows effective support of students from a Christian perspective.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF ELSEWHERE AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE

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: Charnwood, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£950k
Latest spending
£898k
Registered
1999
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net income surplus of £52,557 for the year, bringing total reserves to £314,120. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves of £248,348 are currently above the stated upper limit of the reserves policy. The charity is not audited but subject to an independent examination.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2025

  • Volunteers: 35

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2024

  • Volunteers: 40

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2023

  • Volunteers: 5

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Total income
£950k
Total spending
£898k
Cost of raising funds
£11k
Reserves (reported)
£314k
Employees
21

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£950k£898k
31/08/2024£703k£693k
31/08/2023£732k£745k
31/08/2022£790k£903k
31/08/2021£721k£726k

Common questions

Is FUSION UK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity recorded a net income surplus of £52,557 for the year, bringing total reserves to £314,120. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves of £248,348 are currently above the stated upper limit of the reserves policy. The charity is not audited but subject to an independent examination. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds FUSION UK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name FUSION UK as a grant recipient include MAGNIFY FOUNDATION, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF LINCOLN ST SWITHIN, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH WITH ALL SAINTS SPITALFIELDS, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT PETER FARNBOROUGH, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY WITH HOLY TRINITY ULVERSTON.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The Mercers' Company04/07/2018£100kGrant to Fusion UK

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FUSION MAIDSTONE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
FUSION UK£950k—0above—no doubt
FUSION MAIDSTONE FY2025£332k—0unclear—no doubt
FUSION ARTS LIMITED FY2025£122k—0unclear—no doubt
FUSION PLUS FY2025£140k£39,5000unclear—no doubt
UNION FOUNDATION FY2025£1.6m—0unclear—no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD UNION FY2025£1.5m——above—no doubt

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