Registered charity · Nottingham

The University of Nottingham Students' Union

14 trustees
Income £11m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: Education/training, Amateur Sport
Where: Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire, Derby City
Website: www.su.nottingham.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: The University of Nottingham Students' Union
Registered: 2010

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£11m£11m
2024£11m£11m
2023£11m£11m

Earlier years

2022£9.4m£9.4m
2021£6.4m£6.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE UNION ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT THEUNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:1 PROMOTING THE INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAMDURING THEIR COURSE OF STUDY AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING MEMBERS;2 BEING THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM AND ANY OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES; AND3 PROVIDING SOCIAL, CULTURAL, SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FORUMS FORDISCUSSIONS AND DEBATE FOR THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ITS MEMBERS.

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.

14 trustees on the board

1.2y median 1y

average tenure

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

2.9y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

company-linked trustees

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

Amateur Sport 14Education/training 14

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

Other services 10Arts and leisure 3Retail and trade 2

Gaps to watch

Narrow spread of causes across the board
Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£11.1m 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.

0.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.7 in 2021

233 from 224 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: 1136986
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION 20 APR 2010 as amended on 11 May 2018 as amended on 26 May 2020 as amended on 23 Jun 2026
Companies House: Company number 07229624 · Active
Contact on the register: 01158468800 · studentsunion@nottingham.ac.uk
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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