LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS' UNION

Registered charity 1183625 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LSU

Details of the policies, objectives and activities of Loughborough Students Union are outlined in the Trustees Report included in the year end Financial Statements. These statements are uploaded as a PDF to the charity Commission website.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE UNION ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: 1. ENRICHING AND ENHANCING THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF ITS MEMBERS AS PEOPLE AS WELL AS INTELLECTUALS; 2. PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEMBERS TO DEVELOP THEIR PERSONAL MATURITY, LEADERSHIP, AND COMMUNICATION AND OTHER SKILLS; 3. ACTING AS THE PRINCIPAL BODY REPRESENTING ITS MEMBERS' VIEWS AND INTERESTS WITHIN THEIR INSTITUTION, TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND NATIONALLY; 4. ENHANCING THE STUDENT COMMUNITY AND STUDENT WELLBEING BY PROVIDING SOCIAL, CULTURAL, SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, AND FORUMS FOR DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATE; 5. ENSURING THAT STUDENTS EXPERIENCING PROBLEMS WITH STUDENT LIFE CAN GET THE SUPPORT AND HELP THEY NEED, AND SEEKING TO MINIMISE THE LIKELIHOOD OF THE PROBLEMS OCCURRING.

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Charnwood, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group recorded a net income of £322,115 for the year, resulting in a net increase in funds of £971,682 after actuarial gains on the pension scheme. However, total reserves remain in deficit by £614,648, primarily due to a £2,975,413 loan taken from Loughborough University to settle the SUSS pension liability. The trustees confirm the group will continue to operate for at least 12 months, supported by improved commercial income and a block grant from the university.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2021 (received 29/07/2022, 59 days after the 31/05/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

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

• Loughborough Students’ Union announce by-election for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Executive Officer role lboro.ac.uk · 11/06/2026
• Nominations open for this year’s Loughborough Students' Union Awards lboro.ac.uk · 01/04/2026
• Liz Monk to lead Loughborough Students’ Union as Chief Executive Officer lboro.ac.uk · 25/04/2025
• Loughborough Students' Union enhances food convenience on campus with two new Co-op Stores - Co-operative Group co-operative.coop · 18/09/2024
• Loughborough Students’ Union wins Queen’s Platinum Jubilee award for supporting local community lboro.ac.uk · 24/06/2022
• Family fun day led by Loughborough Students’ Union to take place this weekend lboro.ac.uk · 11/05/2022
• Loughborough Students' Union President Ed Reckless Resigns Over 'Slapping' Woman In Nightclub huffingtonpost.co.uk · 01/04/2015

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Liz Monk — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Dan Gallagher — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Bhanu Dakkumalla — Director of Marketing & Communications (source)
• Nicky Conway — Director of Student Engagement (source)
• Vicii Kirkpatrick — Director of Finance (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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 · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (71% 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: 60.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/07/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Della Freethchair
• Alexandros Mathios-Rose
• Annabel Lloyd
• Bartex Czajkowski
• Colina Wright · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emily Hall
• Grace Moronfolu
• Hanaa Babrakar
• Jessica Kemp
• Kieran Oliver
• Luca Page
• Lucy Palmer
• Richard Taylor
• Robert Allan
• William Ross

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

Operates in: Leicestershire · Newham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND STUDENTS' UNION income £1.3m
• SOUTH BANK STUDENTS' UNION LTD income £1.4m
• UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER STUDENTS' UNION income £3.0m
• LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS STUDENTS' UNION income £5.9m
• LANCASTER UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £4.9m
• THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD STUDENTS' UNION income £10.4m

Side by side with its peers

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