CROWBOROUGH UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE

Registered charity 1128386 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CROWBOROUGH U3A

Provides opportunities for members, usually in the older age group, to participate in self-help educational & leisure activities in an affordable way.

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: EAST SUSSEX

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: Wealden, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £10,591.97 for the year ended 31st October 2025, bringing its current assets to £33,871.67. The independent examiner certified that the Statement of Receipts and Payments is correctly stated and adequately vouched.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

• Jane Lazell
• KATHRYN WILLIG
• Lynda Lenton
• ROBERT JOHN STONE
• Robert Martin Castle
• Trevor Probert
• Yvonne Mary Stone

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

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
• PETERBOROUGH UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £119k
• UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (MERTON BRANCH) income £31k
• UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE IN CARRICK income £27k
• CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £54k
• UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE - YORK income £141k

Side by side with its peers

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