City St George's Students' Union

Registered charity 1173858 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITY STUDENTS' UNION, CITY SU, CITY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON STUDENTS' UNION

The Union represents over 19,000 students at City, University of London to the University, the local community and nationally via the National Union of Students. The Union also promotes the interests and welfare of students and provides social, cultural, sporting and recreational activities and forums for discussions and debate for the personal development of its students.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an overall surplus of £466,714 for the year ended 31 July 2025, driven by a significant increase in trading income following the acquisition of a trading subsidiary. Total incoming resources rose to £4,547,894, while total expenditure was £4,081,180, resulting in net assets of £1,055,002. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ag Agarwal — President (source)
• Tartil Al-Shahim — Deputy President (Belonging and Employability) (source)
• Maham Omer — Deputy President (Education) (source)
• Ahmad Mateen — Deputy President (Community & Wellbeing) (source)
• Ruby Boland — Deputy President (Tooting & Sport) (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 ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (66% 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: 25.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/04/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• AG Agarwalchair
• Ahmad Mateen
• Amish Patel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Georges Elio Khouri
• Jaswinder Ahluwalia
• Leila Ratnani
• Maham Omer
• Rachel Brown
• Ruby Boland
• Tartil Al Shahim

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DURHAM STUDENTS' UNION.

• DURHAM STUDENTS' UNION income £2.6m
• UNION OF KINGSTON STUDENTS income £1.4m
• UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER STUDENTS' UNION income £3.0m
• CARDIFF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £14.0m
• GREENWICH STUDENTS UNION LTD income £4.4m
• UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON STUDENTS' UNION income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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