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Registered charity · Birmingham

Aston Students' Union

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £3.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Amateur Sport, Recreation
Where
Birmingham City
Website
www.astonsu.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Aston Students' Union
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.7m£3.5m
  • 2024£3.7m£4.2m
  • 2023£3.3m£3.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.5m£3.1m
  • 2021£2.5m£2.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE UNION ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT ASTON UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:- PROMOTING THE INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF STUDENTS AT ASTON UNIVERSITY DURING THEIR COURSE OF STUDY AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING STUDENTS;- BEING THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN STUDENTS AND ASTON STUDENTS UNION AND ANY OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES; AND- 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.

10 trustees on the board

1.8y median 1y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

6
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 10Education/training 10Recreation 10

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

Business services 6Arts and leisure 2Construction 2

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£3.7m 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.

0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.1 in 2021

51 from 80 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
1152067
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/04/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/06/2013 as amended on 19 Mar 2024
Companies House
Company number 08497016 · Active
Contact on the register
01212044855 · m.mcloughlin@aston.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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