PRIFYSGOL ABERYSTWYTH

Registered charity 1145141 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the University posted a financial deficit of £3.0 million for the year ended 31 July 2025, following a surplus in the previous year. However, the underlying operational deficit was reduced to £2.4 million from £8.1 million in the prior year, and cash balances increased by £3.7 million to £9.5 million. The trustees confirm the University is prepared on a going concern basis with sufficient funds to meet liabilities for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.2 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 (95% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/06/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Meri Huwschair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alan Edwin Henry Speight
• Alice Leroy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Arwel Vaughan Thomas Mr
• Claire Marie Vaughan
• Daniel Piers Richards
• Gwenno Mair Roberts
• Kate Alice Eden
• Kylie Evans
• Mark Allan Tweed
• Paul Bevan PhD FCMI
• Rhuanedd Bethan Richards · trustee of 1 other charity
• Yusuf Ibrahim

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

Operates in: Ceredigion

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Meri Huws — trustee here and at Y COLEG CYMRAEG CENEDLAETHOL

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY.

• CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY income £148.6m
• UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES/PRIFYSGOL DE CYMRU income £224.9m
• LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY income £56.9m
• PRIFYSGOL CYMRU / THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES income £2.7m
• UNIVERSITIES UK income £17.9m
• COLEG SIR GAR income £51.9m

Side by side with its peers

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