UNION OF KINGSTON STUDENTS

Registered charity 1144763 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KINGSTON UNIVERSITY STUDENTS UNION, KUSU

The advancement of education of students at Kingston University for the public benefit by promoting their interests and welfare and representing, supporting and advising students, representing students' interests to the university, and providing social, cultural, sporting and recreational activities and forums for discussion and debate for the personal development of students.

Objects

THE UNION’S OBJECTS ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT KINGSTON UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: •PROMOTING THE INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF STUDENTS AT KINGSTON UNIVERSITY DURING THEIR COURSE OF STUDY AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING STUDENTS; •BEING THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN STUDENTS AND KINGSTON UNIVERSITY AND ANY OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES; AND •TO PROVIDE SOCIAL, CULTURAL, SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FORUMS FOR DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATE FOR THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ITS STUDENTS. •THESE OBJECTS SHALL BE PRACTISED WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF AGE, SEX RELIGION, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, DISABILITY OR MEDICAL CONDITION, EXCEPT THAT ACTION MAY BE TAKEN TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £30,500 for the year, with total income of £1,406,554 and expenditure of £1,376,054. However, the charity holds unrestricted reserves in a deficit of £649,852, largely driven by a significant defined benefit pension scheme liability of £1,340,214.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2023 (received 20/12/2024, 203 days after the 31/05/2024 due date); year ending 31/07/2022 (received 13/05/2024, 348 days after the 31/05/2023 due date); year ending 31/07/2021 (received 07/06/2022, 7 days after the 31/05/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Canon — Vice President (source)
• Christianna — 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% 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: 5.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Currie
• Canon Manuel
• Katherine Curtis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Muhammad Hamza Haroon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sandra Allen · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Thames · Merton · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KING'S COLLEGE LONDON STUDENTS' UNION.

• KING'S COLLEGE LONDON STUDENTS' UNION income £12.5m
• UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER STUDENTS' UNION income £4.8m
• ASTON STUDENTS' UNION income £3.7m
• BUCKS STUDENTS' UNION income £2.8m
• UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE STUDENTS' UNION income £2.9m
• UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD STUDENTS' UNION income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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