BUCKS STUDENTS' UNION

Registered charity 1144820 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of education of students at Buckinghamshire New University for the public benefit by: promoting the interests and welfare of students during their course of study, representing, supporting and advising students and providing social, cultural, sporting and recreational activities and forums for discussions and debate for the personal development of its students.

Objects

THE UNION'S OBJECTS ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT BUCKINGHAMSHIRE NEW UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:1. PROMOTING THE INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF STUDENTS AT BUCKINGHAMSHIRE NEW UNIVERSITY DURING THEIR COURSE OF STUDY AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING STUDENTS;2. BEING THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN STUDENTS AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE NEW UNIVERSITY AND ANY OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES; AND 3. PROVIDING SOCIAL, CULTURAL, SPORTING, VOLUNTEERING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FORUMS FOR DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATE FOR THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ITS STUDENTS.

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

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Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a managed deficit of £179,253 for the year ending 31 July 2025, which was offset by sums held in reserves. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £208,473 remain within the agreed policy target of £100,000 to £150,000, and the group holds £514,000 in cash, providing adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HW Fisher Audit. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tristan Tipping — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Matthew Kitching — Deputy Chief Executive 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (77% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abhishek Gireesh Sreeja Nair
• Akhil Dhanarashi
• Brandy Collins
• Christopher Smith
• Feba Shaji George
• Jean Marc Amagoua
• Jennifer Noble
• Julia Wiatrowska
• Julie Anne Coronel-Evans
• Leah Barnes
• Samriddhi Gupta
• Swetha Suresh Krishna

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Hillingdon

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 BANGOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION.

• BANGOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £1.6m
• THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM income £62.8m
• OXFORD BROOKES STUDENTS UNION LTD income £1.6m
• LANCASTER UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £4.9m
• BIRKBECK COLLEGE STUDENTS' UNION income £500k
• ASTON STUDENTS' UNION income £3.7m

Side by side with its peers

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