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Registered charity (CIO) · Newport

The Harper Adams University Students' Union

The Harper Adams University Students' Union is a registered charity (number 1157391) based in Newport, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by Luke Smith since 2026. Latest income £1.5m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)
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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Recreation
Where
Telford & Wrekin
Website
www.harpersu.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.6m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2021£475k£580k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE UNION IS TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING AN ORGANISATION TO REPRESENT THE MEMBERS; PROMOTING CO-OPERATION AMONGST ITS MEMBERS FOR SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND SPORTING ACTIVITIES; MAINTAINING COMMUNICATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY; REPRESENTING ITS MEMBERS AND FOSTERING GOOD RELATIONS WITHIN ITS MEMBERSHIP, EXTERNAL BODIES AND WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

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.

8 trustees on the board

2y median 1.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
2.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

0
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 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 8General Charitable Purposes 8

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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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£1.5m 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.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.6 in 2021

47 from 39 in 2022
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
1157391
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Association Registered 09 Jun 2014 as amended on 20 Jan 2025
Contact on the register
01952 815468 · studentsunion@harper-adams.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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