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WARWICK STUDENTS' UNION

Registered charity 1136894 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objects are the advancement of education of students at the University of Warwick by-promoting their interests & welfare, representing, supporting & advising -being the recognised representative of Students to the University & other external bodies -providing social, cultural, sporting & recreational activities & forums for discussions & debate for their personal development

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£9.2m
Latest spending
£8.0m
Registered
2010
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £1,171,346 for the year ended 31 July 2025, driven by increased university grants and commercial income. However, the group holds net liabilities of £3,373,477, primarily due to a long-term loan from the University of Warwick taken to buy out a pension scheme liability. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £859,443, which is above the trustees' stated target of £845,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £845,000 (held: £859k)
“The Board of Trustees has agreed that the Union should have an unrestricted reserve target of £845,000.” — page 14
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Gift Aid donation from subsidiary
“The Union received a donation under gift aid from Membership Solutions Limited of £229,331(2024: £353,838). The Union purchased £37,034 (2024: £41,113) of IT services from Membership Solutions Limited and provided £33,161 (2024: £25,316) of services.” — page 56
“The Union received a donation under gift aid from Students' Union Services Warwick Limited of £108,683 (2024: £116,732). The Union purchased £Nil (2024: £Nil) in goods and services from Students' Union Services Warwick Limited and provided £16,531 (2024: £19,478) of services to Students' Union Services Warwick Limited.” — page 56
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Gift Aid donation from subsidiary
“The Union received a donation under gift aid from Membership Solutions Limited of £229,331(2024: £353,838). The Union purchased £37,034 (2024: £41,113) of IT services from Membership Solutions Limited and provided £33,161 (2024: £25,316) of services.” — page 56
“The Union received a donation under gift aid from Students' Union Services Warwick Limited of £108,683 (2024: £116,732). The Union purchased £Nil (2024: £Nil) in goods and services from Students' Union Services Warwick Limited and provided £16,531 (2024: £19,478) of services to Students' Union Services Warwick Limited.” — page 56
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Governance: The document states two serious incident reports were made to the Charity Commission, but both resulted in no further action. This is a disclosure of an incident, but the outcome was 'no further action', which typically does not constitute a 'serious incident report' finding in the context of governance failures requiring flagging unless specified as a failure. However, the prompt asks for 'serious incident reports'. The text says: 'During the year, Warwick Students’ Union made two serious incident reports to the Charity Commission, both of which resulted in no further action.' I will include this as a disclosed matter.
“During the year, Warwick Students’ Union made two serious incident reports to the Charity Commission, both of which resulted in no further action.” — page 17
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

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Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Total income
£9.2m
Total spending
£8.0m
Cost of raising funds
£1.6m
Reserves (reported)
£859k
Employees
124

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (40% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 16.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Coventry City · Warwickshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£9.2m£8.0m
31/07/2024£9.0m£8.8m
31/07/2023£8.5m£8.5m
31/07/2022£8.0m£6.2m
31/07/2021£5.5m£5.3m

Common questions

Is WARWICK STUDENTS' UNION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £1,171,346 for the year ended 31 July 2025, driven by increased university grants and commercial income. However, the group holds net liabilities of £3,373,477, primarily due to a long-term loan from the University of Warwick taken to buy out a pension scheme liability. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £859,443, which is above the trustees' stated target of £845,000. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Dains Audit Limited.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
QUINTIN HOGG TRUST1£540k
BRITISH UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES SPORT LIMITED1£296

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASTON STUDENTS' UNION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WARWICK STUDENTS' UNION£9.2m——unclear—no doubt
ASTON STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£3.7m——unclear—no doubt
FALMOUTH & EXETER STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£941k—0above—no doubt
GREENWICH STUDENTS UNION LTD FY2025£4.4m£70,001 - £80,0002below—no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£2.4m£70,000 - £79,9994unclear—no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£4.8m£90,001 - £100,000—unclear—no doubt

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