Gloucester and District Branch of the University of the Third Age

Analysis

Gloucester and District Branch of the University of the Third Age is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Gloucester. It was registered in January 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it provides human resources and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending May 2025, Gloucester and District Branch of the University of the Third Age reported income of £54k and spending of £54k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2021 to May 2025, income grew from £7,142 to £54k (+658%), an average of +66% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 201%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Gloucester and District Branch of the University of the Third Age sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jelly Tots Pre-School (£54k), North London Korean School (£54k) and The Friends of St Paul's School, Winchmore Hill (£54k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.