UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE IN CAMBRIDGE (CIO)

Registered charity 1180769 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as U3AC

Provides educational and social activities to those no longer in full-time employment.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THOSE NOT OR NO LONGER IN FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT THROUGH COURSES OF STUDY IN ACADEMIC AND ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES. IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE, THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME PURSUE AND PUBLISH RESEARCH. THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR LEISURE TIME AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE ABOVE PERSONS IN THE INTEREST OF THEIR SOCIAL WELFARE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds deficit of £61,092 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by total expenditure exceeding total income. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted general reserves decreased from £673,947 to £611,352, while total net assets stood at £618,711. The trustees confirmed 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 independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Kevin John Holmeschair
• Dr Jonathan Gillis
• Dr Mark Richard Sanderson
• Dr PATRICIA FARA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Rachel Elizabeth Meller · trustee of 1 other charity
• Heulwen Jane Williams
• Jeremy Newton
• MICHAEL GIBBS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Charles St Arnoul Gilles Russell
• Susan Elizabeth Rhodes
• Susan Honeyford
• Suzan Nellie Therese Griffiths
• Tony Thomas Pooley

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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