BRIGHTON FIVE DEANS U3A

Registered charity 1163495 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our U3A is a self-help organisation for older people providing educational, creative and leisure opportunities in a friendly environment. Members share their skills and life experiences in a wide range of mental, physical and social activities.There is a wide range of interest groups that meet regularly, often in each other?shomes, and a monthly meeting with a speaker.

Objects

THE CHARITABLE PURPOSE OF THE U3A IS:TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE NOT IN FULL TIME GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT WHO ARE IN THEIR THIRD AGE (BEING THE PERIOD OF TIME AFTER THE FIRST AGE OF CHILDHOOD DEPENDENCE AND THE SECOND AGE OF FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT AND/OR PARENTALRESPONSIBILITY) RESIDING IN BRIGHTON AND ITS SURROUNDING LOCALITY

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 free reserves stood at £5,700, which the trustees describe as meeting their target of £5,400 for non-group activities. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £3,458 for the year, driven by a 100% increase in group income, although central costs continue to be impacted by inflation. The trustees remain cautiously optimistic about maintaining current membership fees despite potential economic turbulence.

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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNE BICKMORE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ann Titheradge
• Christopher John Watson
• Linda Fisher
• Linda Jane Bushell
• Mary Peatfield
• Rosalind Margaret Cambell Halls
• Susan Elizabeth Nicholls
• Willlam Mcnaught

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove

Income and spending

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