Registered charity · Lancaster

Lancaster University Students' Union

12 trustees
Income £4.9m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: Education/training, Other Charitable Purposes
Where: Lancashire
Website: lancaster.su.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Lancaster University Students' Union
Registered: 2017

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£4.9m£5.0m
2024£4.8m£5.0m
2023£6.5m£6.3m

Earlier years

2022£6.4m£6.6m
2021£6.0m£6.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE UNION'S OBJECTS ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT LANCASTER UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:PROMOTING THE INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF STUDENTS AT LANCASTER UNIVERSITY DURING THEIR COURSE OF STUDY AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING STUDENTS;BEING THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN STUDENTS AND LANCASTER UNIVERSITY AND ANY OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES;ANDPROVIDING SOCIAL,CULTURAL,SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FORUMS FOR DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATE FOR THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ITS STUDENTS.THE OBJECTS OF THE UNION SHALL BE PURSUED ONLY WITHIN ITS CONSTITUTION AND WITHIN THE LAW. NO UNION BODY OR OFFICER MAY ACT IN CONTRADICTION TO THIS.

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.

12 trustees on the board

1.8y median 0y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Amanda Chetwynd since 2019

6.3y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

Amanda Chetwynd since 2019

company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 12Other Charitable Purposes 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Transport 13Education 6Professional services 3

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£4.9m 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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

34 from 40 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: 1172269
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04 NOV 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 JAN 2023
Companies House: Company number 10464111 · Active
Contact on the register: 01524592212 · help@lancaster.co.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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