STAFFORD UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (U3A)

Registered charity 1120043 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE U3A ARE: 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: STAFFORD

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £11,395 as of 31st December 2024, which is below its stated policy target of a four-month sinking fund. The financial position is reviewed in the financial statement, and the independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention other than those 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 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Cowey
• Audrey Bright
• David John Benge
• Geoffrey Dowzall
• HELEN HOOD
• Henryk Smialowski
• June Williams
• Linda Sparkes
• Raymond Braziel

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE THIRD AGE TRUST.

• THE THIRD AGE TRUST income £3.5m
• U3A IN LONDON income £157k
• CHRISTCHURCH UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £137k
• MILTON KEYNES U3A (UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE) income £116k
• UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE - YORK income £141k
• CAMBERLEY & DISTRICT UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (U3A) income £142k

Side by side with its peers

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