STOURBRIDGE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (STOURBRIDGE U3A)

Registered charity 1166067 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STOURBRIDGE U3A, STOURBRIDGE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE

Stourbridge U3A hold monthly meetings which offer talks of general interest and opportunities for conversation and for the public to meet us. We have over forty interest groups offering a range of subjects: languages, literature, history, local study, genealogy, music, art, crafts, bridge, quizzes, walking and food. We also organise outings to sites of educational interest.

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.

Causes: Education/training · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dudley, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £2,646.69 for the year ended 28 February 2026, bringing total net assets to £20,038.34. The trustees report that the organization is run entirely by unpaid volunteers and relies on annual subscriptions and member contributions, having used reserves to fund any difference between income and expenditure in the past.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 28/02/2023 (received 13/02/2024, 47 days after the 28/12/2023 due date); year ending 28/02/2022 (received 11/08/2023, 226 days after the 28/12/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARBARA FRENCHchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anne Williams
• Evelyn Mary Schneider
• Ivor Caplan
• JOHANNA CLARKE
• James Gennard
• Joy Rachel Moss
• MICHAEL WELLS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Maggie Thompson
• Sheila Beetison
• Trevor Hahn

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

Operates in: Dudley · Staffordshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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