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Registered charity (CIO) · Stoke-on-Trent

Staffordshire Students' Union

Staffordshire Students' Union is a registered charity (number 1173330) based in Stoke-on-Trent, governed by 6 trustees and chaired by Tasha Cork since 2026. Latest income £2.8m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £2.8m (2025)
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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
Where
Staffordshire, Hackney
Website
www.staffsunion.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.8m£2.9m
  • 2024£2.9m£3.0m
  • 2023£3.0m£3.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.9m£2.9m
  • 2021£2.0m£1.9m

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 STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:PROMOTING THE INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF STUDENTS AT STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY DURING THEIR COURSE OF STUDY AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING STUDENTS;BEING THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN STUDENTS AND STAFFORDSHIRE 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.

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

0.8y median 0.5y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
1.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

0
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 6General Charitable Purposes 6

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across 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£2.8m 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.

3.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.7 in 2021

99 from 134 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
1173330
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 07 Jun 2017 as amended on 30 Jun 2025 as amended on 23 Jun 2025
Contact on the register
01782294629 · union@staffs.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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