MILTON KEYNES U3A (UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE)

Registered charity 298693 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MKU3A

Provide education and social activities for those people who are retired or in part-time employment

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: MILTON KEYNES AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is financially strong with unrestricted reserves of £77,665.91, which exceeds the advised Charity Commission parameter of 50% of anticipated expenditure. The charity reports no known significant liabilities and a surplus for the year, indicating stable financial health.

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 5 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• June Lesley Sparkschair
• David Barrratt
• Deborah Hodges
• Diana Sears
• Hazel Margaret Spencer
• Timothy Hadden
• Tina Griffiths
• Wendy Barrett

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

Operates in: Milton Keynes

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHRISTCHURCH UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE.

• CHRISTCHURCH UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE income £137k
• UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE - YORK income £141k
• UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES INFORMATION SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION income £2.4m
• U3A IN LONDON income £157k
• AGE UK MILTON KEYNES income £2.8m
• HALE AND DISTRICT U3A income £111k

Side by side with its peers

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