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.

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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.

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 4.8 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 5.2%) (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
• Annabel Lloyd
• Bartex Czajkowski
• Colina Wright · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emily Hall
• Grace Moronfolu
• Jessica Kemp
• Kieran Oliver
• 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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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS STUDENTS' UNION.

• LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS STUDENTS' UNION income £5.9m
• THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD STUDENTS' UNION income £10.4m
• OXFORD BROOKES STUDENTS UNION LTD income £1.6m
• UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX STUDENTS' UNION income £6.5m
• LANCASTER UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £4.9m
• THE STUDENTS' UNION AT BU LTD income £4.2m

Side by side with its peers

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