Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE FARNHAM AND DISTRICT 

The education of middle aged and older people
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£63£59£4n/an/an/an/an/a109
30/06/22£50£63£-13n/an/an/an/an/a10
30/06/21£27£36£-10n/an/an/an/an/a10
30/06/20*£58£49£9n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/19*£59£59£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/18£58£55£3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£55£52£3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£52£50£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£50£50£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£47£47£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£46£49£-3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£42£43£-1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11£43£41£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/10£42£40£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09£43£39£5£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/08£41£45£-4£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/07£39£40£-1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/06£71£59£12£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05£61£59£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04£55£55£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 31 years

www.farnhamu3a.org.uk

treasurer@farnhamu3a.org.uk

01252794957

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Technical, vocational and continuing education
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Surrey,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 109 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/03/1993, number: 1019078
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR20: 4 days late, AR19: 85 days late,
Main office

17 Kestrel Close
Ewshot
FARNHAM
Surrey
GU10 5TW

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE EDUCATION OF OLDER PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO ARE RETIRED FROM FULL TIME WORK, BY ALL MEANS INCLUDING ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES CONDUCIVE TO LEARNING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PRACTICE, FARNHAM AND DISTRICT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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