U3A UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE, CHELTENHAM BRANCH

Registered charity 299146 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHELTENHAM U3A, U3A UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE, CHELTENHAM AND DISTRICT BRANCH

We are a volunteer-driven organisation for those who are no longer in full-time employment. We facilitate lifelong learning and stimulating daytime activities in the company of others. All activities are run and coordinated by volunteers.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE EDUCATION OF OLDER PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO ARERETIRED FROM FULL TIME WORK BY ALL MEANS, INCLUDING ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES CONDUCIVE TO LEARNING ANDPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THOSE RESIDING IN CHELTENHAM AND ITS SURROUNDING LOCALITY

Area of benefit: CHELTENHAM AND DISTRICT

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £10,900, which the trustees describe as being maintained at a level of 125% of the Third Age Trust Capitation fee. The document notes no material fund deficits and explicitly states there are no uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• PROFESSOR RODERIC KEITH GRIFFITHSchair
• Leone Elizabeth Meyer
• Martin Charles Bromberg
• Richard Henderson Rutter
• Roderick James Gay

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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