LIVERPOOL GUILD OF STUDENTS

Registered charity 1137398 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LGOS

PROVIDING REPRESENTATION, ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION AND OFFERING A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE TO OUR MEMBERS THROUGHOUT THEIR STUDENT LIFE.

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

Latest income

£4.7m

Latest spending

£4.4m

Registered

2010

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Guild held unrestricted funds of £1,775,408 at the year end, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of six months' core operating costs (£1,348,649). Although the Guild reported a net asset position of £61,040 due to the recognition of a pension deficit liability, the trustees confirmed the organization is financially viable and prepared on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: National Union of Students Services Ltd

“Liverpool Guild of Students is an affiliated member of NUSSL who operate a purchasing consortium within the student union movement.” — page 39

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Sol Badruddin — President (source)
Will Jones — Deputy President (source)
Fin Deane — Vice President (source)
Lauren Goadby — Vice President (source)

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): facebook · instagram

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

Total income

£4.7m

Total spending

£4.4m

Cost of raising funds

£608k

Reserves (reported)

£1.8m

Employees

190

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (46% 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: 13.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Alan Roy Whittle
Britney Adaeze Dike
Daniel Morelli
Finlay Thomas Allan Macleod Deane
Gabriella TAMAS
Lauren Faith Goadby
Linda Mason
Lucy Grace Richmond
Ranya Ghiti
Sabrina Evelyn Maia Baptista
Soloman Imran Thomas Badruddin
William Michael Jones

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

Operates in: Liverpool City

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/07/2025	£4.7m	£4.4m
31/07/2024	£4.7m	£4.7m
31/07/2023	£4.4m	£4.4m
31/07/2022	£4.4m	£3.8m
31/07/2021	£2.7m	£2.6m

Common questions

Is LIVERPOOL GUILD OF STUDENTS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Guild held unrestricted funds of £1,775,408 at the year end, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of six months' core operating costs (£1,348,649). Although the Guild reported a net asset position of £61,040 due to the recognition of a pension deficit liability, the trustees confirmed the organization is financially viable and prepared on a going concern basis. 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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
BRITISH UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES SPORT LIMITED	1	£296

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION.

LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £2.3m
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £1.3m
OXFORD BROOKES STUDENTS UNION LTD income £1.6m
LEEDS BECKETT STUDENTS' UNION income £2.3m
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER STUDENTS' GUILD income £3.5m
TRINITY SAINT DAVID STUDENTS’ UNION income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
LIVERPOOL GUILD OF STUDENTS	£4.7m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION FY2025	£2.3m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION FY2025	£1.3m	£70,001 - £80,000	2	above	—	no doubt
OXFORD BROOKES STUDENTS UNION LTD FY2025	£1.6m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
LEEDS BECKETT STUDENTS' UNION FY2025	£2.3m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER STUDENTS' GUILD FY2025	£3.5m	£80,001 - £90,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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