WINCHESTER STUDENTS' UNION

Registered charity 1208187 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Winchester Students' Union provides independent educational advice & support and a broad range of extracurricular activities and volunteering opportunities to students of the University of Winchester; this includes an annual, diverse programme of campaigns designed to elect positive behavioura change and provide critical information for the welfare and interests of members and the wider community.

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Latest income

£1.5m

Latest spending

£1.7m

Registered

2024

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred an operational deficit, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £577,067 to £376,445. Despite this, the trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern and met its stated reserves policy target of £180,000 with unrestricted funds of £235,220.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £235k)

“a minimum reserve equivalent to three months’ planned membership services expenditure and three months of full-time staff salary costs, held in unrestricted funds, represents a prudent level of reserves.” — page 8

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Pension scheme deficit: £88k

“In accordance with FRS 102, the net present value of the future contributions required over 15 years to clear the funding deficit is £88,162 (2024: £89,118).” — page 29

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — WinchSU (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Andrew Hodgson — Chief Executive (source)
Tiffany Jones — Deputy CEO (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 31/07/2025)

Total income

£1.5m

Total spending

£1.7m

Reserves (reported)

£180k

Employees

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: Charitable activities (73% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (15/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Eleanor Kate Waters
Elodie Amber Iris Hynd
James Walker
John Wilson
Kieron Galloway
Michael Keighley
Ruth Westbury
Ryan Bird

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/07/2025	£1.5m	£1.7m

Common questions

Is WINCHESTER STUDENTS' UNION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred an operational deficit, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £577,067 to £376,445. Despite this, the trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern and met its stated reserves policy target of £180,000 with unrestricted funds of £235,220. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Knox Cropper LLP.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
QUINTIN HOGG TRUST	1	£540k
BRITISH UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES SPORT LIMITED	1	£296

Charities like this

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

UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER STUDENTS' UNION income £4.8m
UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER STUDENTS' UNION income £1.2m
GREENWICH STUDENTS UNION LTD income £4.4m
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £7.6m
DURHAM STUDENTS' UNION income £2.6m
UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON STUDENTS’ UNION income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
WINCHESTER STUDENTS' UNION	£1.5m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER STUDENTS' UNION FY2025	£4.8m	£90,001 - £100,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER STUDENTS' UNION FY2025	£1.2m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
GREENWICH STUDENTS UNION LTD FY2025	£4.4m	£70,001 - £80,000	2	below	—	no doubt
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION FY2025	£7.6m	£90,000 - £100,000	4	unclear	—	no doubt
DURHAM STUDENTS' UNION FY2025	£2.6m	—	—	below	47.2%	no doubt

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