GREAT GLEN U3A INTERESTS GROUP

Registered charity 1099411 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GREAT GLEN U3A, Great Glen Oadby & Wigston u3a

Provides speaker for monthly meetings. Organises group activities for a variety of educational and sporting activities.

Objects

The charity’s objects (“objects”) are the advancement of education, 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 Great Glen, Oadby, Wigston and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: GREAT GLEN 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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £4,312, bringing total unrestricted funds to £22,465 at year-end. The trustees noted that reserves amounted to just under a full year’s turnover and expressed an intention to reduce this level through sustainable actions such as lowering membership fees. No material uncertainties or risks to going concern were disclosed.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Williamschair
• CHERRY DENISE THACKER
• Elizabeth Cooke
• Janet Sheila Fanko
• NOELENE SAPIRO
• Robert Radford Mansfield
• Roger William Edwards
• Susan Howard

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

Operates in: Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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