UNITARIAN COLLEGE

Registered charity 1180457 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education and training

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£128k
Latest spending
£318k
Registered
2018
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £189,509 before investment gains, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £129,148 for the year. The trustees report that cashflow remains a challenge and that the charity has utilized cash reserves to cover operating costs exceeding donations and charitable income. However, the charity holds significant investment assets of £929,338, which the trustees consider sufficient to support operations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three years of trading (held: £1.0m)
“In the early years of operation our policy is to generate sufficient reserves to cover our expenditure for three years of trading.” — page 13
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025£128k£318k
30/09/2024£222k£271k
30/09/2023£155k£227k
30/09/2022£316k£191k
30/09/2021£145k£186k

Common questions

Is UNITARIAN COLLEGE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £189,509 before investment gains, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £129,148 for the year. The trustees report that cashflow remains a challenge and that the charity has utilized cash reserves to cover operating costs exceeding donations and charitable income. However, the charity holds significant investment assets of £929,338, which the trustees consider sufficient to support operations for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds UNITARIAN COLLEGE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name UNITARIAN COLLEGE as a grant recipient include THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF UNITARIAN AND FREE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES.

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF UNITARIAN AND FREE CHRISTIAN CHURCHESFY2022£2kfrom Unrestricted fund

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES INFORMATION SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
UNITARIAN COLLEGE£128k—0unclear—no doubt
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES INFORMATION SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION FY2025£2.4m£160,001 - £170,000—unclear—no doubt
EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT FY2025£1.1m£90,001 - £100,000—above—no doubt
JEWISH TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE FY2025£3.8m——unclear—no doubt
READING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£5.6mmore than £70,0002above—no doubt
Emmanuel Theological College FY2025£1.5m—0above—no doubt

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