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Registered charity · Cheltenham

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £59m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.ucas.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£59m£57m
  • 2024£57m£56m
  • 2023£54m£53m
Earlier years
  • 2022£54m£49m
  • 2021£52m£41m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED IS TO ADVANCE AND TO ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN UNIVERSITIES, AND OTHER HIGHER, FURTHER OR SECONDARY ESTABLISHMENTS IN SO FAR AS SUCH ADVANCEMENT AND ASSISTANCE SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN NATURE, IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE FOREGOING, BY PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING AN ORGANISATION TO FACILITATE THE CONSIDERATION BY SUCH UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER HIGHER, FURTHER OR SECONDARY EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENTS OF APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO AND TO ASSIST APPLICANTS IN GAINING ACCESS TO SUCH UNIVERSITIES AND EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS.

Grants received

1 grant · £67,000 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 Education · £67,000

Most recent

  • Department for Education £67,0002020-04-01
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.

2.2y median 1.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.3y
average years in governance
11
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 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 30Other services 6Tech and media 5

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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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£58.7m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

560 from 443 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1024741
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/07/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/11/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/11/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/11/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/11/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/11/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/04/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/03/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/04/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/04/2012NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 04/04/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/03/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 11/09/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/01/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31 DEC 2017 as amended on 04 Feb 2020
Companies House
Company number 02839815 · Active
Contact on the register
01242 544823 · corporategovernance@ucas.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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