Registered charity · Dorset
Poole University of the Third AGE
- 8 trustees
- Income £70k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Alan Stuart JowseyChair · since 2022
- Carol Linda RigbyTrustee · since 2026
- Denise Marie BrownTrustee · since 2024
- Jacqueline BettessTrustee · since 2021
- Janet HarrisonTrustee · since 2024
- Julia Margaret PalmerTrustee · since 2024
- Margaret RiggsTrustee · since 2025
- Ruaraidh Donald James MackayTrustee · since 2018
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Recreation
- Where
- Dorset, Poole
- Website
- www.pooleu3a.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1993
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£70k£59k
- 2024£70k£56k
- 2023£64k£71k
Earlier years
- 2022£58k£69k
- 2021£853£14k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable 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.
Grants received
2 grants · £6,810 total360Giving 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
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £3,598
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £3,212
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Alan Stuart Jowsey Chair since 2022
- Carol Linda Rigby since 2026
- Denise Marie Brown since 2024
- Jacqueline Bettess since 2021
- Janet Harrison since 2024
- Julia Margaret Palmer since 2024
- Margaret Riggs since 2025
- Ruaraidh Donald James Mackay since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- Ruaraidh Donald James Mackay since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Alan Stuart Jowsey Chair since 2022
- Carol Linda Rigby since 2026
- Denise Marie Brown since 2024
- Jacqueline Bettess since 2021
- Janet Harrison since 2024
- Julia Margaret Palmer since 2024
- Margaret Riggs since 2025
- Ruaraidh Donald James Mackay since 2018
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1019559
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 23RD FEBRUARY 1993 AS AMENDED 14 FEBRUARY 1997, 11 FEBRUARY 2000, 15 FEBRUARY 2002 AND 24 OCTOBER 2003.AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 22 JAN 2019AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 12 JUL 2018
- Contact on the register
- 01202678113 · pooleu3a@gmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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