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NORTHAMPTON STUDENTS' UNION

Registered charity 1209212 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Latest income
£1.7m
Latest spending
£1.8m
Registered
2024
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year, reducing its total reserves from £875,793 to £811,006. The trustees confirm that the charity has sufficient funds to meet all obligations, supported by a confirmed block grant of £1,360,000 for the following year. The auditor concluded that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £80,001 - £90,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)
“There was one employee of the Charity whose total emoluments exceeded £60,000; The employees total emoluments fall within the £80,001 to £90,000 band.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 1
“There was one employee of the Charity whose total emoluments exceeded £60,000”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £464k)
“Unrestricted reserves: A minimum level equivalent to 2 months operating costs, with a target of 3 months plus wind-down and contingency costs.” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: University of Northampton Enterprise Limited
“The Union incurred costs from University of Northampton Enterprise Limited, a company associated with the University of Northampton, of £233” — page 27
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Clifford Roberts. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

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

Total income
£1.7m
Total spending
£1.8m
Reserves (reported)
£464k
Employees
47

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 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 (86% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£1.7m£1.8m

Common questions

Is NORTHAMPTON STUDENTS' UNION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year, reducing its total reserves from £875,793 to £811,006. The trustees confirm that the charity has sufficient funds to meet all obligations, supported by a confirmed block grant of £1,360,000 for the following year. The auditor concluded that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Clifford Roberts.

What does the highest-paid employee of NORTHAMPTON STUDENTS' UNION earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £80,001 - £90,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
DAVID LAING FOUNDATION1£141k
THE JOHN ARMITAGE CHARITABLE TRUST1£140k
THE RANDAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£42k
THE GEORGE CADBURY TRUST (GEORGE HENRY T AND LAURENCE J CADBURY SECTIONS)1£30k
THE SCOTT BADER COMMONWEALTH LIMITED1£10k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
NORTHAMPTON STUDENTS' UNION£1.7m£80,001 - £90,0001unclear—no doubt
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON STUDENTS' UNION FY2025£7.6m——below—no doubt
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FY2025£1.7m—1unclear—no doubt
LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL STUDENT ASSOCIATION FY2025£2.5m—0within—no doubt
DELTA-NORTH CONSETT LIMITED FY2025£1.4m£60,001 - £70,0002unclear—no doubt
GEFEN FOUNDATION FY2025£373k—0unclear—no doubt

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