FURNESS UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (U3A)

Registered charity 1118002 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Operates interest groups for retired people in Furness area of Cumbria

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: IN FURNESS 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

Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity ended the financial year with a net surplus of £988.48 and unrestricted reserves of £16,036.36, which exceeds the trustees' stated target of £9,000. The accounts state there are no current liabilities and future outgoings are budgeted to be covered by member subscriptions. The trustees judge the charity to be a going concern for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Morris
• Anthony Neil McLaughlin Cook
• Dawn Morris
• Duncan Platts
• Gary Thompson
• Harry Knowles
• Linda Marshall
• Richard Lewis

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

Operates in: Cumbria

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 UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE FARNBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.

• UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE FARNBOROUGH AND DISTRICT income £136k
• BURTON-ON-TRENT UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (U3A) income £99k
• BURTON JOYCE & DISTRICT U3A income £28k
• GRAVESEND, NORTHFLEET&DISTRICT UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (U3A) income £34k
• CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £54k
• MILTON KEYNES U3A (UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE) income £116k

Side by side with its peers

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