CHRISTCHURCH UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE

Registered charity 1091197 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRISTCHURCH U3A, CHRSITCHURCH U3A

We offer a programme of educational and leisure activity for those no longer in full time work, comparable to local U3A's nationwide.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCAITON AND IN PARTICULAR THE EDUCATION OF OLDER PEOPLE AND THOSE RETIRED FROM FULL TIME WORK, BY ALL MEANS INCLUDING ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES CONDUCIVE TO LEARNING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHRISTCHURCH AND SURROUNDING DISTRICT.

Area of benefit: CHRISTCHURCH AND SURROUNDING DISTRICT

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 · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is in a stable financial position with sustained membership levels exceeding 1,000. However, the organization reported a current account loss of £10,049.09 for the year, driven by venue costs rising by 14% to £47,000. Reserves are being actively managed and reduced in line with Third Age Trust guidelines, with investment returns lower than previous years.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rosemary McCullochchair
• EILEEN JOAN LANCASTER
• Elaine Trayler
• Ian Peterkin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jackie Sherman
• Paul Francis Heighes
• Paula Watton
• Sarah Catherine Smith
• Susan Auriel Fillery

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

Operates in: Bournemouth

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 MILTON KEYNES U3A (UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE).

• MILTON KEYNES U3A (UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE) income £116k
• WOKINGHAM UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £156k
• UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE - YORK income £141k
• THORNBURY U3A income £141k
• U3A IN LONDON income £157k
• THE SANDBACH AND DISTRICT UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £102k

Side by side with its peers

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