Wellingborough and District University of the Third Age

Analysis

Wellingborough and District University of the Third Age is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Northamptonshire. It was registered in April 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and recreation, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it provides human resources and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Wellingborough and District University of the Third Age reported income of £31k and spending of £36k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £4,091 to £31k (+665%), an average of +66% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 505%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Wellingborough and District University of the Third Age sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 114th Stoke-On-Trent and Newcastle-Under-Lyme Division 1st Trentham Scout Group (£31k), Carsington Sailability Trust (£31k) and The Southside Trust (£31k).

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.