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Registered charity · Newcastle upon Tyne

Northumbria Students' Union

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £4.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Newcastle Upon Tyne City
Website
www.mynsu.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Northumbria Students' Union
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.2m£4.1m
  • 2024£4.1m£4.1m
  • 2023£4.3m£4.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.1m£4.1m
  • 2021£3.4m£3.5m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE UNION RE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA AT NEWCASTLE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:1) PROMOTING THE INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA AT NEWCASTLE DURING THEIR COURSE OF STUDY AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING STUDENTS;2) BEING RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA AT NEWCASTLE AND ANY OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES; AND3) PROVIDING SOCIAL, CULTURAL, SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FORUMS FOR DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATE FOR THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ITS STUDENTS

Board analysis for researchers

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.

13 trustees on the board

0.8y median 0y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
1.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 13Education/training 13General Charitable Purposes 13

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

Finance 42Hospitality 6Business services 3

Gaps to watch

  • 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£4.2m 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.

1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.8 in 2021

106 from 128 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
1174053
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07 JUN 2017 as amended on 05 Nov 2020 as amended on 09 Dec 2022
Companies House
Company number 10807853 · Active
Contact on the register
01912274757 · su.enquiries@northumbria.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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