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Registered charity · Oxford

Oxford University Student Union

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport
Where
Oxfordshire
Website
www.oxfordsu.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Oxford University Student Union
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2023£1.1m£938k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2021£1.0m£986k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

OUSU'S OBJECTS ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLICBENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BY:(A) PROMOTING THE INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF STUDENTS AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING ANDADVISING STUDENTS,(B) BEING THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITYAND ANY OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES,(C) PROVIDING SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FORUMS FOR DISCUSSIONS ANDDEBATE FOR THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS, AND(D) FURTHERING ALL PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE IN LAW, AND WHICH ARE INCIDENTAL ORCONDUCIVE TO THE MAIN OBJECTS.

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.

0.8y median 0y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
1.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 12

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 4Arts and leisure 1Retail and trade 1

Gaps to watch

  • 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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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£1.1m 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.

2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.3 in 2021

11 from 22 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
1140687
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 JUL 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/12/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 MAR 2021AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 JUN 2025
Companies House
Company number 07314850 · Active
Contact on the register
01865288454 · enquiries@oxfordsu.ox.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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