Skip to content
Governance Register
Sign inFind yourself
Find yourselfSign in
Search How it works For organisations For professionals

Edition

United Kingdom (current)IrelandUnited StatesNew ZealandCanadaAustraliaScotlandNorthern Ireland

Registered charity · Chester

University of Chester

University of Chester is a registered charity (number 525938) based in Chester, governed by 23 trustees and chaired by John Nicholas Mills since 2025. Latest income £154m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 11th October 2026.

  • 23 trustees
  • Income £154m (2025)
How am I connected?
More
View network map Report an issue

The people who lead this organisation are listed below. Create a free account to save it, get alerts and check how you are connected.

Official record Charity Commission · updated 11th October 2026 · Sources · Free, no card or password

Network

The large node is University of Chester. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Dashed links are historical or inferred. Click any node to explore.

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

Similar charities are matched by type of organisation or purpose and listed by latest income; shared trustees are formal board links. Neither is proof the organisations work together.

Public contracts won

1 contract · £144,000 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

About

What it does
Education/training, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport and 2 more
Where
Cheshire East, Shropshire, Warrington, Cheshire West & Chester
Website
www.chester.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£154m£142m
  • 2024£148m£147m
  • 2023£138m£147m
Earlier years
  • 2022£136m£142m
  • 2021£123m£128m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 12%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PROVISION MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A COLLEGE FOR THE HIGHER AND FURTHER EDUCATION OF MEN AND WOMEN, INCLUDING THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

Grants received

11 grants · £833,490 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £828,525 (10 grants)
  • Westminster Foundation · £4,965

Most recent

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £12,4932022-04-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £17,0662022-04-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £38,0842022-04-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £51,3412022-04-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £-3,8752022-04-01

Contracts awarded

31 contracts · £11,356,175 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender (Open Government Licence v3.0), where this organisation is recorded as the buyer. Suppliers are matched to a Governance Register company or charity page at confidence 0.7 or higher; below that they are shown by name only.

Top suppliers

Most recent

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.

3y median 1y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure
5.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (17)

Portfolio (6)

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 23Religious Activities 23Arts/culture/heritage/science 20Environment/conservation/heritage 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 9Other services 4Health and social care 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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

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£154.2m 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.

7.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.6 in 2021

1430 from 1565 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.
13%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
525938
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME DATED 19/05/1982AS AMENDED BY ORDER DATED 02/03/1990AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 20/12/1995AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 30/06/1998AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 30/06/2005 as amended on 06 Jul 2021 as amended on 29 Mar 2022 as amended on 05 Jul 2022 as amended on 01 Aug 2023 as amended on 02 Oct 2024 as amended on 02 Oct 2025
Contact on the register
01244512902 · A.PARKER@CHESTER.AC.UK
Edition
Register edition compiled 11th October 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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data