VERULAM U3A

Registered charity 1155517 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We have provided regular educational talks for people in their Third Age in St Albans and its surrounding locality and also facilitated their continued learning through interest groups. We have also kept members informed of educational activities offered by our regional network and by the Third Age Trust.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £3,475.46 for the year ended 31 July 2025, reducing its accumulated funds to £5,135.33. The Chair's report confirms the organization remains in robust health with approximately 525 members. The trustees have reviewed and expanded governance policy documents, which are available on the charity's website.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Dean
• Barbara Bennett
• Edmund Jankowski
• George Raymond Bloom
• Giles Harrison
• Helen Norman
• Ian Marshall
• Jennifer Edie
• Malcolm Two
• Margaret Blockley
• Phillip Russell
• Trevor Taylor

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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