KEELE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION

Registered charity 1173328 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KUSU

Keele SU operates a number of activities and services, all for the benefit of its members.Activities include; community representation and advocacy to influence the student experience, individual representation and advocacy to support students facing difficulties, community-based student activities, volunteering and sports facilitation, retail, catering, printing and entertainments.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £1,522,110, primarily driven by a pension scheme liability of £1,315,992. Despite net current liabilities of £147,548, the trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern, citing sufficient financial support from Keele University and positive trading income of £3,758,377.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Keele University Students’ Union and Keele Postgraduate Association combining resources to become one organisation keele.ac.uk · 16/02/2026

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• John Ucheagwu — KPA President (source)
• Precious Aderibigbe — KPA Vice President (source)
• Benjamin Buckley-Wain — Development and Democracy Officer (source)
• Amrit Bhogal — Experience & Community Officer (source)
• Apshara Kathiresan — KPA Association Secretary (source)
• River Targett — Education Officer (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (59% 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: 70.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amrit Bhogal
• Benjamin Buckley-Wain
• Giselle Pearson
• Hayley Williams
• James Ashenden
• John Ucheagwu
• Mx River Targett
• Nuala Mary Devlin
• Precious Aderbigbe

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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