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Registered charity · London

Universities UK

  • 19 trustees
  • Income £18m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland, Belgium
Website
www.universitiesuk.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Universities UK
Registered
1990

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£18m£19m
  • 2024£19m£15m
  • 2023£17m£17m
Earlier years
  • 2022£18m£20m
  • 2021£14m£13m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 3% · Government grants 16%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND DEVELOP THE UNIVERSITY SECTOR OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THEREBY ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT

Grants received

5 grants · £984,606 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £527,820
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · £411,649 (3 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £45,137

Most recent

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £221,6492024-04-01
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £527,8202023-10-20
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £45,1372023-10-20
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £89,5842022-04-01
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £100,4162022-04-01
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

2.9y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.4y
average years in governance
19
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 19Accommodation/housing 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Economic/community Development/employment 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 45Other services 21Professional services 17

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£17.9m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.9 in 2021

165 from 148 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
19%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1001127
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29 JUN 1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09 NOV 1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03 JUL 1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25 JUN 1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08 DEC 1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 DEC 1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 JUL 1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03 DEC 1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01 DEC 2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 MAY 2013 as amended on 04 Dec 2020 as amended on 22 Apr 2022
Companies House
Company number 02517018 · Active
Contact on the register
02074195473 · info@universitiesuk.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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