DUNMOW U3A

Registered charity 1168310 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide benefit to retired and semi-retired persons by way of regular monthly meetings with speakers, and group activities according to members' interests.

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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Registered contact address: Uttlesford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity continues to thrive with membership growing to over 800. The Chair reports that the organization is going from strength to strength, supported by a dedicated committee and active volunteer leadership.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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 31/03/2023 (received 24/04/2024, 84 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 01/03/2023, 29 days after the 31/01/2023 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

• Ronald William McGladechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anna Fletcher
• Derek Michael Jones
• Heather Quiney
• Ian Robert Marshall
• John William Miller · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sandra Lilian McGlade

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

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• BOURNEMOUTH U3A income £74k
• THE PERSHORE AND DISTRICT U3A income £38k
• U3A CRANLEIGH AND DISTRICT AREA income £59k
• WINDSOR AND DISTRICT U3A income £42k
• ODIHAM DISTRICT U3A income £92k
• LINDSEY U3A income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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