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Registered charity · Kent

Christ Church Students' Union

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £977k (2025)

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, Amateur Sport, Recreation
Where
Kent
Website
www.ccsu.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Christ Church Students' Union
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£977k£996k
  • 2024£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.0m£1.0m
  • 2021£798k£714k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

THE UNIONS CHARITABLE OBJECTS ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: 4.1 BEING ACKNOWLEDGED AS THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE BODY FOR ALL STUDENTS ENROLLED ON A RECOGNISED PROGRAMME OF STUDY AT CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY.4.2 PROMOTING THE INTERESTS OF STUDENTS AT CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY DURING THEIR COURSE OF STUDY AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING MEMBERS.4.3 BEING ACKNOWLEDGED AS THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN THE STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY AND A REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN THE STUDENTS AND ANY OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES.4.4 PROVIDING SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR MEMBERS.4.5 PROMOTING CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.4.6 PROMOTING THE WELFARE AND INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT OF MEMBERS AND PROVIDING ADVICE SERVICES RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL AND WELFARE ISSUES.4.7 RAISING FUNDS FOR OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS.

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.

11 trustees on the board

2.4y median 1y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

10
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 11Education/training 11General Charitable Purposes 10Recreation 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.

Other services 12Education 8Health and social care 4

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£977k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

5.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

12 from 13 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
1142619
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28/04/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/07/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/12/2015 as amended on 22 Oct 2020 as amended on 06 Apr 2021 as amended on 06 Apr 2021
Companies House
Company number 07618194 · Active
Contact on the register
01227924924 · hello@ccsu.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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