ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION

Registered charity 1150576 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AUSU

Mission: We want Aber students to love student life.Vision: Aber students should be happy, healthy and empowered, with lasting friendships and promising futures. Values: We are: shaped by students, transparent, a Community, ambitious. We caru CymraegThe principal objectives of the Undeb are to benefit its current members by advancing their education

Objects

THE UNION'S OBJECTS ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:PROMOTING THE INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF STUDENTS AT ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY DURING THEIR COURSE OF STUDY AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING STUDENTS;BEING THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN STUDENTS AND ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY AND ANY OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES; ANDPROVIDING SOCIAL, CULTURAL, SPORTING 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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an operating profit of £98,290 from unrestricted funds, increasing its total net assets to £646,453. The trustees report that the union remains dependent on funding from Aberystwyth University but has sufficient reserves to continue operations for at least twelve months. The charity maintains a reserves policy requiring a minimum of £50,000, which it significantly exceeds.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PJE Audit Services Ltd. Discloses 4 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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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
• Investment
• 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alice — Llywydd Wellbeing & Liberation (source)
• Fran — Llywydd Opportunities (source)
• Laura — Llywydd Academic (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Roberts
• Alice Leroy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catrin Alwena Hughes Moakes
• Daniel Fow
• Francesco Lanzi
• Gwenno Roberts
• Laura Young
• Robert James Hart
• Tristan Wood

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

Operates in: Ceredigion

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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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
• GREENWICH STUDENTS UNION LTD income £4.4m
• SWANSEA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £5.8m
• UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON STUDENTS’ UNION income £1.7m
• UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD STUDENTS' UNION income £2.4m
• CARDIFF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £14.0m

Side by side with its peers

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