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Registered charity · London

Soas Students' Union

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport and 2 more
Where
Camden, Islington
Website
soasunion.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£1.3m
  • 2024£1.2m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.0m£1.1m
  • 2021£641k£642k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

THE UNION'S OBJECTS ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:3.1 PROMOTING THE INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES DURING THEIRCOURSE OF STUDY AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING STUDENTS;3.2 BEING THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN STUDENTS AND THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES AND ANY OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES; AND3.3 PROVIDING SOCIAL, CULTURAL, SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FORUMS FOR DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATE FOR THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ITS STUDENTS.

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.

6 trustees on the board

0.7y median 0.5y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
0.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (3)

0
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 6Education/training 6Religious Activities 6

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on 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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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£1.3m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.5 in 2021

38 from 49 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
1150717
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 08 OCT 2012
Contact on the register
02078984996 · su@soas.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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