UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES/PRIFYSGOL DE CYMRU

Registered charity 1140312 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN / PRIFYSGOL MORGANNWG

The University provides education and training, and undertakes research for the public benefit

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Latest income
£224.9m
Latest spending
£222.4m
Registered
2011
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the University reported a small deficit of £2.4m for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income decreasing to £221.6m and total expenditure to £222.8m. Per the trustees' report, the institution maintains strong financial foundations, holding £169.2m in cash and short-term investment balances against £37.5m in long-term bank loans, resulting in a net asset position of £279.2m.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: The document discloses transactions with the Students' Union and USW Pathway College Ltd, but does not specify the individual Board Member interests for these specific transactions in the table, only stating 'Various'. It also discloses expenses paid to Governors.
“The total expenses paid to or on behalf of 6 independent Governors was £4,121 (2023/24 - £2,023). This represents travel and subsistence expenses incurred in attending Board of Governor, and Committee meetings.” — page 99
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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

Total income
£224.9m
Total spending
£222.4m
Reserves (reported)
£267.3m
Employees
2,129

Reported reserves equal ~14.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£224.9m£222.4m
31/07/2024£248.7m£244.9m
31/07/2023£233.0m£231.8m
31/07/2022£218.9m£216.0m
31/07/2021£200.2m£195.0m

Common questions

Is UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES/PRIFYSGOL DE CYMRU financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the University reported a small deficit of £2.4m for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income decreasing to £221.6m and total expenditure to £222.8m. Per the trustees' report, the institution maintains strong financial foundations, holding £169.2m in cash and short-term investment balances against £37.5m in long-term bank loans, resulting in a net asset position of £279.2m. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HaysMac LLP.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund04/10/2022£17k"Women's Boxing Wales: Past, Present, Future"
UK government01/04/2022£116kSouth Wales Industrial Cluster - Phase 2 Deployment
UK government01/04/2022£2kUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES
UK government01/04/2022£7kAF4ENERGY Affordable Energy for Africa - Renewable Energy and Valorisation of Waste Biomass
The National Lottery Community Fund28/09/2021£6kESOL project for People seeking sanctuary in Wales
UK government01/04/2021£6kUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES
UK government01/04/2019£192kPerformance and the Maternal
UK government01/04/2019£10kALB-Historic England-HERALD: Linked Data for the Historic Environment
UK government01/04/2019£47kFood Transport Refrigeration with Engine Exhaust and Metal Hydride Reactors
The National Lottery Heritage Fund31/05/2018£49k"Moby Dick on the Newport Transporter Bridge: Combining literature, heritage, history and community"
UK government31/05/2018£29kCyber Security Postgraduate Bursaries Scheme
UK government01/04/2018£275kALB - UKRI - Moving Image Demonstrators
UK government01/04/2018£35kALB - UKRI - Feasibility project to dramatically extend 1st life via next generation battery management systems
UK government01/04/2018£140kALB - UKRI - University of South Wales and InterHigh Education Limited
UK government01/04/2018£97kALB - UKRI - On Cherlin's conjecture for finite binary primitive permutation groups
UK government01/04/2018£10kALB-Historic England-HERALD: Linked Data for the Historic Environment
The National Lottery Heritage Fund27/08/2015£39k"Virtual Heritage Wales - Caerwent Roman Town"
The National Lottery Community Fund26/05/2015£86kNewport University Community Counselling Service (NUCCS)
The National Lottery Heritage Fund25/04/2014£54k"The Archaeologist's Wife"
UK government—£20kLocal Grants 2017/18

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PRIFYSGOL CYMRU / THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES/PRIFYSGOL DE CYMRU£224.9m——unclear—no doubt
PRIFYSGOL CYMRU / THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES FY2025£2.7m—1unclear—no doubt
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY FY2025£634.1m——above—no doubt
PRIFYSGOL ABERYSTWYTH FY2025£127.4m——unclear—no doubt
SWANSEA UNIVERSITY FY2025£325.6m——unclear—no doubt
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT FY2025£24.0m——within—no doubt

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