The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Swansea University

Registered charity 1138342 Registered since 2010

Operates: City Of Swansea

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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.

3.2y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (7)

9
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 17Arts/culture/heritage/science 3Disability 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2General Charitable Purposes 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Professional services 14Health and social care 6Education 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£325.6m 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.

9.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 7.7 in 2021

3448 from 3627 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.
9%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.swansea.ac.uk
Emaill.a.woollard@swansea.ac.uk
Phone01792 205678
AddressSWANSEA UNIVERSITY, SINGLETON PARK, SWANSEA, SA2 8PP

Finances

£325,645,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£360,665,000£332,920,000
2022£340,086,000£447,629,000
2023£412,628,000£348,691,000
2024£381,610,000£298,779,000
2025£325,645,000£373,030,000

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides ServicesSponsors Or Undertakes Research

Charitable objects

ARTICLE 3 OF THE UNIVERSITY'S 2007 SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER STATES THAT "THE OBJECTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SHALL BE TO ADVANCE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE BY TEACHING AND RESEARCH, AND TO ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE AND CONTRIBUTE TO CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHIN WALES AND BEYOND."

Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER 21 JANUARY 1920

Trustees (17)

17trustees
60median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (10)

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