UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM GUILD OF STUDENTS

Registered charity 1137548 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We operate on democratic principles and students are represented by our Members Democratic Process. We provide services such as Student Advice; Jobs, Skills and Volunteering; Student Groups; Hall Reps; Student Voice; Mentor Scheme; Community Wardens; Venues and marketing services. We campaign on student related local, national and international issues and also support work of the NUS.

Causes: Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £248,160 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income increasing to £7.91m. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £1.49m, which is in line with the minimum £1m unrestricted funds target set by the charity's reserves policy.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: GUILD SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 02080761
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06638759

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Olly Ashton — Guild President (source)
• Ahmed Sidahmed — International Officer (source)
• Dr Abhishikha Waghchoure — Postgraduate Officer (source)
• Sean Ryan — Activities and Employability Officer (source)
• Jacob Dyke — Education Officer (source)
• Sumpa Abbey — Welfare & Community Officer (source)
• Abhijeet Patel — Sports Officer (source)
• Olivia Sommer — Disabled Students' Officer (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SIDAHMED, Ahmed Khalid Ali — director, appointed 20/07/2026on trustee list
• RYAN, Sean Mitchell — director, appointed 20/07/2026on trustee list
• ASHTON, Oliver Daniel — director, appointed 20/07/2026on trustee list
• ABBEY, Nyamesumpa — director, appointed 20/07/2026on trustee list
• WAGHCHOURE, Abhishikha Sunil, Dr — director, appointed 20/07/2026on trustee list
• SANGHA, Tenisha — director, appointed 07/07/2026on trustee list
• LUCK, Christopher Tony — director, appointed 23/06/2026on trustee list
• HANLEY, Neil Anthony, Professor — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• SABIR, Umar — director, appointed 04/08/2025on trustee list
• PRICE, Mark Andrew, Dr — director, appointed 04/08/2025on trustee list
• PATEL, Abhijeet — director, appointed 14/07/2025on trustee list
• DYKE, Jacob Lucien — director, appointed 14/07/2025on trustee list
• HACKETT, Penelope Jane — director, appointed 10/01/2025on trustee list
• STONE, Helen Lucy — director, appointed 08/01/2024on trustee list
• PIPKIN, Ruth Susan — director, appointed 24/10/2023on trustee list
• HAWLEY, Simone Elizabeth — director, appointed 23/10/2023on trustee list
• THOMAS, Joanne Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 04/07/2008

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (63% 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: 2.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ruth Susan Pipkinchair
• Abhijeet Patel
• Ahmed Khalid Ali Sidahmed
• Christopher Tony Luck
• Dr Abhishikha Sunil Waghchoure
• Dr Mark Andrew Price
• Helen Stone
• Jacob Lucien Dyke
• Michael Daniel Brown
• Nyamesumpa Abbey
• Oliver Daniel Ashton
• Penelope Jane Hackett
• Professor Neil Anthony Hanley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sean Mitchell Ryan
• Simone Elizabeth Hawley
• Tenisha Sangha
• Umar Sabir

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNIVERSITY COLLEGE BIRMINGHAM STUDENTS’ UNION (THE GUILD OF STUDENTS).

• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE BIRMINGHAM STUDENTS’ UNION (THE GUILD OF STUDENTS) income £360k
• BIRMINGHAM CITY STUDENTS' UNION income £3.9m
• UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL STUDENTS' UNION income £7.7m
• GREENWICH STUDENTS UNION LTD income £4.4m
• UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER STUDENTS' UNION income £4.8m
• NORTHUMBRIA STUDENTS' UNION income £4.2m

Side by side with its peers

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