HULL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION LIMITED

Registered charity 1152549 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HULL UNIVERSITY UNION LIMITED

Hull University Union Limited is the Students' Union of the University of Hull. Our main aim is to help provide the best possible experience to our students whilst they are at University. This includes their education and extramural activites./ Further details are available on http//www.hullstudent.com.

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Latest income
£6.9m
Latest spending
£6.8m
Registered
2013
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net income of £151,858 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total unrestricted funds carried forward of £2,536,582. The trustees maintain a reserves policy target of £1.2m to cover six months of operating costs, and the actual free reserves of £2,353,024 exceed this target. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £1.2m of free reserves to meet 6 months of operating costs (held: £2.4m)
“The policy, reviewed in July 2025, is to hold £1.2m of free reserves to meet 6 months of operating costs of the group” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Pension scheme deficit: £316k
“This results in a liability on the balance sheet of £315,539 for the group.” — page 22
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sadofskys. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Raising and Giving on behalf of Hull University Students' Union (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

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

Total income
£6.9m
Total spending
£6.8m
Reserves (reported)
£2.5m
Employees
53

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (72% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Hull City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£6.9m£6.8m
31/07/2024£7.3m£7.0m
31/07/2023£6.5m£6.4m
31/07/2022£5.3m£5.8m
31/07/2021£3.3m£3.3m

Common questions

Is HULL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the group reported a net income of £151,858 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total unrestricted funds carried forward of £2,536,582. The trustees maintain a reserves policy target of £1.2m to cover six months of operating costs, and the actual free reserves of £2,353,024 exceed this target. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sadofskys.

Who funds HULL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HULL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITY.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITYFY2021£10kYouth

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
BRITISH UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES SPORT LIMITED2£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD STUDENTS' UNION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HULL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION LIMITED£6.9m——unclear—no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£2.4m£70,000 - £79,9994unclear—no doubt
THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£10.4m——unclear—no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£6.5m—1unclear—no doubt
GREENWICH STUDENTS UNION LTD FY2025£4.4m£70,001 - £80,0002below—no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£6.9m——unclear—no doubt

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