UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE, DARLINGTON

Registered charity 1078025 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as U3A DARLINGTON

Educational and leisure activities which include the following, walking, gardening, bridge, line dancing, local history, art history, literature, creative writing. Hand bell ringing, practical art, creative writing, poetry reading, garden bowls, music appreciation, jazz appreciation.

Objects

(I) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR THE EDUCATION OF MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT IN FULL TME GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT IN DARLINGTON AND ITS SURROUNDING LOCALITY.(II) 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 INTEREST OF THEIR SOCIAL WELFARE.

Area of benefit: DARLINGTON AND ITS 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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Darlington, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

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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 policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 04/02/2024, 96 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 26/07/2023, 268 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Victoria Laingchair
• Christopher Owen Raynel
• Dr Lisa Kim Templeton
• Dr Norman David Pigden
• Gillian Wright · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Mabel Peach
• Lisbeth Jane Bows · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Edward Keeney
• Sylvia Keeney

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

Operates in: Durham

Income and spending