BEDS SU

Registered charity 1173887 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of Education of students at the University of Bedfordshire for the Public benefit by:Promoting the interests and welfare of students at the UOB their course of study and representing ,supporting and advising students.Being the recogonised representative channel between students and the UOB and external bodies.Providing social, cultural, sporting and recreational forums

Objects

The objects of the Union are the education of Students at the University of Bedfordshire for the public benefit by:1.1 promoting the interests and welfare of those Students during their course of study, and representing, supporting and advising Students;1.2 being the recognised representative channel between Students, the University and any other external bodies; and1.3 providing social, cultural, sporting and recreational activities and forums for discussions and debate for the personal development of its Students.

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 the charity reported a net loss of £2,561 on unrestricted funds for the year, primarily due to restructuring costs. The trustees confirm that reserves are at the desired level of four months' operating costs and that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by FKCA Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 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
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark McCormack — Chief Executive (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 ~2.6 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 (81% 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: 39.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Kathryn Nethercott
• Harry Pearce
• Hauwa Ojali Ataja
• Karol Peter Szl
• Maria-Florina Serafim
• Paidamoyo Mercy Cikizwa Mashingaidze
• Priyanka Mehra

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

Operates in: Bedford · Birmingham City · Luton · Milton Keynes · 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 FALMOUTH & EXETER STUDENTS' UNION.

• FALMOUTH & EXETER STUDENTS' UNION income £941k
• BEDFORD HOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £295k
• UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL STUDENTS' UNION income £7.7m
• BEDFORD GREENACRE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL LTD income £8.8m
• OXFORD BROOKES STUDENTS UNION LTD income £1.6m
• BEDE HOUSE ASSOCIATION income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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