CAMBRIDGE STUDENTS' UNION

Registered charity 1189287 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAMBRIDGE SU

Cambridge SU exists to further the advancement of the education of Students at the University of Cambridge for thepublic benefit and to promote the equality of opportunity in education for the public benefit.

Causes: Education/training · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £63,219 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income of £1,591,807 and total expenditure of £1,528,588. Free reserves stood at £271,119, which the trustees confirmed were maintained within their stated policy range of £222,000 to £444,000. The accounts state that the charity remains a going concern with stable funding from the University and Colleges deemed low risk.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jeeves Rohilla — President (PG) (source)
• Melanie Benedict — President (UG) (source)
• Sarah Misraoui — Vice President (Education & Widening Participation) (source)
• Talulla Harris — Vice President (Liberation & Welfare) (source)
• Stella Wilkinson — Vice President (Student Community & Societies) (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 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 22.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abel Mavura
• Bassil Alaeddin
• Gemma Louise Donaldson
• Jeevun Krishan Rohilla
• Lewys Thomas
• Melanie Benedict
• Nowsha Farha
• Prof Demetrius Andreas Floudas
• Sarah Misraoui
• Simon To
• Stella Wilkinson
• Talulla May Harris

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HUGHES HALL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

• HUGHES HALL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £16.7m
• CLARE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE income £16.0m
• CAMBRIDGE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £200k
• THE COLLEGE OF THE LADY FRANCES SIDNEY SUSSEX IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £14.2m
• CHRIST'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FIRST FOUNDED BY KING HENRY VI OF ENGLAND AND AFTER HIS DEATH income £37.3m
• UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA STUDENTS' UNION income £527k

Side by side with its peers

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