WELLINGBOROUGH AND DISTRICT UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE

Registered charity 1146852 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WELLINGBOROUGH AND DISTRICT U3A

The Charity provides opportunities for older people to meet for the purposes of interest, education and leisure. There are monthly lectures and talks and a wide variety of interest groups.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE EDUCATION OF OLDER PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO ARE RETIRED FROM FULL TIME WORK, BY ALL MEANS INCLUDING ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES CONDUCIVE TO LEARNING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.

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: North Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £5,228, which is below the stated policy target of holding six months' operational costs. The financial position shows a credit balance of £11,603, and the filing confirms that no material matters came to the examiner's attention regarding the accounts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 02/02/2024, 2 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 03/03/2023, 31 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julia Kathleen Heathcotechair
• Catherine Deborah French
• Helen Jane Grant
• Helen Veronica Hinsley
• Jean Elizabeth BRETHERTON
• LINDA CHRISTINE MEREDITH
• Milica KWOLEK
• Patricia Ann Heed
• Sandra Mary Kemp

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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• UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE FARNBOROUGH AND DISTRICT income £136k
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• THE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE - HAXBY AND WIGGINTON income £39k
• GUISBOROUGH UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £26k
• THE HARROGATE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £53k
• UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE, TODMORDEN income £25k

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