REIGATE AND REDHILL U3A

Registered charity 297529 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

U3A provides Public Benefit by facilitating continuing education and social welfare to older people no longer in full-time employment. This is achieved by forming small, interactive groups of people with common or related interests who meet in each others homes, by organising general, monthly meetings with expert presenters on a wide range of subjects and by running trips to places of interest.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE EDUCATION OF OLDER PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO ARE RETIRED FROM FULL TIME WORK, BY ALL MEANS INCLUDING ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES CONDUCIVE TO LEARNING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.

Area of benefit: REDHILL AND REIGATE AND ITS SURROUNDING LOCALITY

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Reigate and Banstead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£33k
Latest spending
£35k
Registered
1987
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £2,409 for the period ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus of £881 in the prior year. Total unrestricted funds carried forward were £9,619, with cash on deposit and at bank totaling £19,698. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate and no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 153

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 138

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 142

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£33k£35k
31/03/2024£37k£36k
31/03/2023£41k£44k
31/03/2022£22k£22k
31/03/2021£6k£10k

Common questions

Is REIGATE AND REDHILL U3A financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £2,409 for the period ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus of £881 in the prior year. Total unrestricted funds carried forward were £9,619, with cash on deposit and at bank totaling £19,698. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate and no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund22/08/2005£3kLaptop and projector

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UPMINSTER U3A.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
REIGATE AND REDHILL U3A£33k—0unclear—no doubt
UPMINSTER U3A FY2025£36k—0unclear—no doubt
U3A IN LONDON FY2025£157k—0unclear—no doubt
SOUTHPORT U3A FY2025£265k—0unclear—no doubt
SHOREHAM & SOUTHWICK U3A FY2026£28k—0unclear—no doubt
WELWYN/HATFIELD U3A FY2025£65k—0unclear—no doubt

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