The Sale U3a

Analysis

The Sale U3a is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sale. It was registered in June 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending October 2025, The Sale U3a reported income of £24k and spending of £22k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £2,753 to £24k (+756%), an average of +71% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income rose by 316%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Sale U3a sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The International Federation of Airworthiness for Aerospace Engineering, Maintenance and Continuing Airworthiness (£24k), Friends of Thomas a Becket Junior School (£24k) and Victoria Primary School PTA (£24k).