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Registered charity · Loughborough

Loughborough Students' Union

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £9.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Education/training
Where
Leicestershire, Newham
Website
www.lsu.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Loughborough Students' Union
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.6m£9.3m
  • 2024£8.4m£9.0m
  • 2023£8.3m£8.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£9.2m£8.7m
  • 2021£6.5m£6.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE UNION ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: 1. ENRICHING AND ENHANCING THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF ITS MEMBERS AS PEOPLE AS WELL AS INTELLECTUALS; 2. PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEMBERS TO DEVELOP THEIR PERSONAL MATURITY, LEADERSHIP, AND COMMUNICATION AND OTHER SKILLS; 3. ACTING AS THE PRINCIPAL BODY REPRESENTING ITS MEMBERS' VIEWS AND INTERESTS WITHIN THEIR INSTITUTION, TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND NATIONALLY; 4. ENHANCING THE STUDENT COMMUNITY AND STUDENT WELLBEING BY PROVIDING SOCIAL, CULTURAL, SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, AND FORUMS FOR DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATE; 5. ENSURING THAT STUDENTS EXPERIENCING PROBLEMS WITH STUDENT LIFE CAN GET THE SUPPORT AND HELP THEY NEED, AND SEEKING TO MINIMISE THE LIKELIHOOD OF THE PROBLEMS OCCURRING.

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 1y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

8
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 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Education 11Professional services 2Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£9.6m 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.

1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.0 in 2021

256 from 233 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
1183625
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16 MAY 2019AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 MAY 2019 as amended on 18 Jun 2024
Companies House
Company number 12000783 · Active
Contact on the register
01509363180 · suelucas@lsu.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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