NOTTINGHAM TRENT STUDENTS' UNION

Registered charity 1154401 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NTSU

To provide social and recreational activities for students

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£7.1m

Latest spending

£7.0m

Registered

2013

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £51,197 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £7,052,350 and total expenditure of £7,001,153. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £1,395,266 are held, which falls between the stated minimum and target reserves levels. The trustees confirm that the union has sufficient funds to meet all obligations and continue in operational existence.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £70,001 - £80,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)

“In the band £70,001 - £80,000” — page 37

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — NTSU RAG (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Joe Cormack — Chair of NTSU’s Board of Trustees / President (source)
Kudzai Muzangaza — Deputy Chair (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Total income

£7.1m

Total spending

£7.0m

Reserves (reported)

£1.4m

Employees

272

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (18/05/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Joseph Cormackchair
Angeline Isabella Alma Smith
Dr Georgina Joanne Kimberley Benford
Dr Jane Louise Rigbye
Geoffrey Adrian Love
Katie Leigh Booth
Kudzai Muzangaza
Matthew Carl Nicholson
Mischa Dooley

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

Operates in: Nottingham City · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/07/2025	£7.1m	£7.0m
31/07/2024	£7.2m	£7.1m
31/07/2023	£6.4m	£6.5m
31/07/2022	£6.0m	£6.0m
31/07/2021	£3.2m	£3.5m

Common questions

Is NOTTINGHAM TRENT STUDENTS' UNION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £51,197 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £7,052,350 and total expenditure of £7,001,153. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £1,395,266 are held, which falls between the stated minimum and target reserves levels. The trustees confirm that the union has sufficient funds to meet all obligations and continue in operational existence. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of NOTTINGHAM TRENT STUDENTS' UNION earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £70,001 - £80,000 band.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
BRITISH UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES SPORT LIMITED	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FALMOUTH & EXETER STUDENTS' UNION.

FALMOUTH & EXETER STUDENTS' UNION income £941k
UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENTS' UNION income £6.9m
TRINITY SAINT DAVID STUDENTS’ UNION income £1.2m
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON STUDENTS' UNION income £7.6m
NORTHAMPTON STUDENTS' UNION income £1.7m
UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND STUDENTS' UNION income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
NOTTINGHAM TRENT STUDENTS' UNION	£7.1m	£70,001 - £80,000	—	within	—	no doubt
FALMOUTH & EXETER STUDENTS' UNION FY2025	£941k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENTS' UNION FY2025	£6.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
TRINITY SAINT DAVID STUDENTS’ UNION FY2025	£1.2m	£60,001 - £70,000	1	above	739684.0%	noted
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON STUDENTS' UNION FY2025	£7.6m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
NORTHAMPTON STUDENTS' UNION FY2025	£1.7m	£80,001 - £90,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt

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