THE HIGH LANE U3A

Registered charity 1091296 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HIGH LANE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE

We provide Educational, Recreational and Leisure Activities for retired and semi-retired people living in High Lane and the surrounding area. We have over 400 members. There are no obstacles to joining; no qualifications are needed and there are no exams. We try to meet the educational and social needs of our members whilst providing a safe and secure environment for the members to meet.

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: HIGH LANE 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 · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's committee reserves have recovered to pre-pandemic levels, with unrestricted reserves of £6,250 held in a building society. The trustees report that membership is steady and the financial base is secure, although they note a lack of volunteers for group leadership as a principal risk. The charity confirms it is continuing as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andre Lister
• Diane Saxon
• Dorothy Neillands
• Kathleen Wareham
• Leslie Birks · trustee of 1 other charity
• Linda Dale
• Lynn Arnold
• MARGARET MCDERMOTT
• PAUL KENNETH
• Pam Curley
• Pamela Daphne Cooke
• Robert Trevor Kinvig
• SUSAN GRACE HARLIN
• barbara kenneth

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

Operates in: Stockport

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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