U3A IN LONDON
Registered charity 288434 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Provision of educational and leisure activities for retired and semi-retired men and women.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £125,000 for the year ended 31 August 2025, driven by a significant drop in legacy income and higher expenditure. Despite this, the charity maintains substantial unrestricted reserves of £821,000 and a designated fund of £1,450,000, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover future accommodation needs and running costs without relying on uncertain legacies.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: reserves needed to help secure the charity's needs for accommodation in future years, to cover unforeseen circumstances and to provide income to supplement the charity's membership income and thus help cover the charity's running costs without relying on legacies and exceptional donations (held: £821k)
“The charity's policy is to set aside as a designated fund the reserves needed to help secure the charity's needs for accommodation in future years, to cover unforeseen circumstances and to provide income to supplement the charity's membership income and thus help cover the charity's running costs without relying on legacies and exceptional donations”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
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.
- KANAL, Sanjay — director, appointed 23/03/2026on trustee list
- MOSS, Andrew Gary — director, appointed 30/01/2026on trustee list
- CHURBA, Raquel Silvia — director, appointed 30/01/2026on trustee list
- HEATON, Robert Barnard — director, appointed 31/03/2025on trustee list
- SMITH, David Graham — director, appointed 31/03/2025on trustee list
- TILFORD, Maureen, Dr — director, appointed 31/03/2025on trustee list
- ARTHUR, Richard Andrew — director, appointed 20/03/2023on trustee list
- KORGAONKAR, Gillian — director, appointed 16/05/2022on trustee list
- SOBER, Anthony Lionel — director, appointed 27/03/2017on trustee list
- MACCI, Mushtakali Mohamed — secretary, appointed 15/11/2023
Official officers record.
- ANTHONY LIONEL SOBER
- Andrew Gary Moss
- David Graham Smith
- Dr Maureen Tilford
- Gillian Korgaonkar
- Raquel Silvia Churba
- Richard Andrew Arthur
- Robert Barnard Heaton
- Sanjay Kanal
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout London
Income and spending
Common questions
Is U3A IN LONDON financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £125,000 for the year ended 31 August 2025, driven by a significant drop in legacy income and higher expenditure. Despite this, the charity maintains substantial unrestricted reserves of £821,000 and a designated fund of £1,450,000, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover future accommodation needs and running costs without relying on uncertain legacies. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Knox Cropper LLP.
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