BIDDULPH U3A

Registered charity 1121494 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Biddulph U3A has approx 500 members who take part in voluntary activities of their choice on a weekly basis. There are approx 35 classes to choose from including Singing, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Yoga, Tone and Trim, Keep Fit, Sequence Dancing, Acoustic Guitar, Badminton, Table Tennis, Computer Studies, Mexican Dominoes, Photography, Bowling, Art & Painting, Patchwork & Quilting, Walking.

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 TOLEARNING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: BIDDULPH, STAFFORDSHIRE

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £10,740.69, bringing total reserves to £94,922.78. The balance sheet shows current assets including a reserve account of £63,866.58 and a social account of £35,490.95. No liabilities or debts are explicitly listed in the provided balance sheet extract.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Davis
• Barbara Lesley Forster
• Dianne Copeland
• Joseph Anthony Turner
• Julie Colclough
• Margaret Rose Shenton
• Stephen Powney
• Suzanne Alison Simpson
• William Alec Hancock

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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