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COVENTRY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION LIMITED

Registered charity 1139462 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CUSU

The purpose of CUSU shall be to represent, promote and advance the educational, welfare, sporting, social and cultural interests of all students enrolled at Coventry University and be directed by the students of Coventry University.

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

Latest income
£4.4m
Latest spending
£4.2m
Registered
2010
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £181,951 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £691,396. The trustees confirm that these reserves exceed the stated target level of 30% of charity expenditure, providing sufficient funds for stability and future growth. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Grants
“Grants Democracy & representation 2,545,429” — page 27
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: 30% of Charity expenditure (held: £691k)
“Target level - 30% of Charity expenditure.” — page 16
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Payments to trustees: Sabbatical Officers received remuneration of £98,500.
“Each Sabbatical Officer is paid an annual salary and the total salaries paid to Sabbatical Officers during the year end 31 July 2025 were £98,500” — page 30
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: CUSU Services Limited
“CUSU is the beneficial owner of CUSU Services Limited, a Company limited by shares incorporated on 11 July 2011.” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

CUSU SERVICES LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
  • Turnover: £1.1m
  • Profit before tax: £67k
  • Note 7 discloses £553,719 owed to group undertakings as of 31 July 2025 (2024: £366,659).

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.

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.

Official officers record.

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

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

Total income
£4.4m
Total spending
£4.2m
Cost of raising funds
£1.0m
Reserves (reported)
£1.0m
Employees
148

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (75% 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: 23.0% 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: Barking And Dagenham · City Of London · Coventry City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£4.4m£4.2m
31/07/2024£3.3m£3.4m
31/07/2023£3.4m£3.5m
31/07/2022£4.0m£3.9m
31/07/2021£3.5m£3.1m

Common questions

Is COVENTRY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £181,951 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £691,396. The trustees confirm that these reserves exceed the stated target level of 30% of charity expenditure, providing sufficient funds for stability and future growth. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Knox Cropper LLP.

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 UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA STUDENTS' UNION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
COVENTRY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION LIMITED£4.4m——unclear—no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£527k—0above—noted
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£4.8m£90,001 - £100,000—unclear—no doubt
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£14.0m£80,001 - £90,000—unclear—no doubt
GREENWICH STUDENTS UNION LTD FY2025£4.4m£70,001 - £80,0002below—no doubt
ASTON STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£3.7m——unclear—no doubt

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