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Registered charity · Manchester

The Union, MMU

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £4.1m (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, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Manchester City
Website
www.theunionmmu.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Union, MMU
Registered
2020

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.1m£4.4m
  • 2024£8.7m£4.5m
  • 2023£4.6m£4.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.3m£3.9m
  • 2021£3.2m£7.5m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE UNION ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT THE MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:-1) PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE EXPRESSION OF STUDENT OPINION AND ACTIVELY REPRESENTING THE INTERESTS OF STUDENTS;2) ACTING AS A CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION IN DEALING WITH THE MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY AND OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES;3) PROMOTING THE WELFARE OF STUDENTS AT THE MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY;4) FACILITATING THE SOCIAL, RECREATIONAL, POLITICAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF ITS MEMBERS, THROUGH PROVIDING SERVICES AND SUPPORT FOR ITS MEMBERS; AND5) WORKING WITH OTHER STUDENTS' UNIONS AND AFFILIATED BODIES.

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.

11 trustees on the board

1.3y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

10
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 11General Charitable Purposes 11Other Charitable Purposes 11

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 10Property 2Arts and leisure 1

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£4.1m 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.

3.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.4 in 2021

110 from 59 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
1191269
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02 JUL 2020
Companies House
Company number 12714026 · Active
Contact on the register
01612471162 · s.u.reception@mmu.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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