SPIRE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE

Registered charity 1080479 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPIRE U3A

A self help organistion for middle aged and older people not in fulltime gainful employment to share many educational, creative and leisure activities. One of three u3a's in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Affiliated to the National Third Age Trust

Objects

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 SALISBURY AND ITS SURROUNDING LOCALITY.II) 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: SALISBURY 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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£7k
Latest spending
£6k
Registered
2000

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Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 11/11/2022, 284 days after the 31/01/2022 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

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£7k£6k
31/03/2024£5k£5k
31/03/2023£5k£5k
31/03/2022£2k£2k
31/03/2021£2k£3k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund02/12/2004£3k"History Lectures And Archaeology With An Expert Will Enable This Older People'S Group To Improve Their Knowledge Of Local Heritage."