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UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD STUDENTS' UNION

Registered charity 1189354 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD STUDENTS' UNION, USSU

PROMOTING THE INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING STUDENTS.BEING THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD AND ANY OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES.PROVIDING SOCIAL, CULTURAL, SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FORUMS FOR DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATE FOR THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS

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Latest income
£2.8m
Latest spending
£2.9m
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £356,601, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of six months' loss in trading income (£612,619). The trustees note that the buy-out of the defined benefit pension scheme is the largest risk to the organisation and is likely to reduce the reserves position further, though the University has offered a loan facility if required.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £70,001 - £80,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)
“The following number of employees received employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) during the year between: No. £70,000-£79,999 2025 2024 1 1” — page 41
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 1
“The following number of employees received employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) during the year between: No. £70,000-£79,999 2025 2024 1 1” — page 41
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £357k; policy: six months' loss in trading income)
“At 31 July 2025 the Union held unrestricted funds of £356,600 (2024: £256,356) equating to 56% (39% 2024) of the target level.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram · linkedin

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

Total income
£2.8m
Total spending
£2.9m
Cost of raising funds
£121k
Reserves (reported)
£564k
Employees
106

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (52% 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: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Salford City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£2.8m£2.9m
31/07/2024£2.7m£2.9m
31/07/2023£2.5m£2.4m
31/07/2022£2.3m£2.8m
31/07/2021£3.0m£1.6m

Common questions

Is UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD STUDENTS' UNION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £356,601, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of six months' loss in trading income (£612,619). The trustees note that the buy-out of the defined benefit pension scheme is the largest risk to the organisation and is likely to reduce the reserves position further, though the University has offered a loan facility if required. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Dains Audit Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD STUDENTS' UNION earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £70,001 - £80,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England04/07/2017£3kFencing Electric Scoring System
Sport England10/10/2016£940BUCS Volleyball at Salford
Sport England08/09/2016£1kFunding for Basketball shot clocks + Stands
Sport England14/07/2014£100kGive Sport A Go

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD STUDENTS' UNION£2.8m£70,001 - £80,0001below—no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£2.4m£70,000 - £79,9994unclear—no doubt
THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£11.1m——above—noted
WARWICK STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£9.2m——unclear—no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD UNION FY2025£1.5m——above—no doubt
TRINITY SAINT DAVID STUDENTS’ UNION FY2025£1.2m£60,001 - £70,0001above739684.0%noted

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