The Cardiff U3a

Lifelong learning and social activities for those who have finished the main part of their working life.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Cardiff

Area of benefit in its governing document: Cardiff and Surrounding Area

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £28,834 and spent £28,311.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 332%, from £6,678 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £28,834 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 98% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 August 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

10 trustees run the charity.

• Mary Margaret RichardsChairAppointed 4 April 2022
• Catherine JewsburyAppointed 2 October 2023
• David Geoffrey MunsonAppointed 3 November 2025
• Dr Jennifer Kay RichmondAppointed 6 July 2026
• Elizabeth Meryl JamesAppointed 7 September 2026
• Engela Elizabeth FernerAppointed 11 May 2026
• Hugh Melvyn JonesAppointed 11 May 2026
• Karen OldsAppointed 9 December 2025
• Richard Michael NobleAppointed 7 September 2026
• Rosemary Joy GriffithsAppointed 8 November 2022

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1033518

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

18 February 1994

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 12 OCTOBER 1993AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 12 JUL 2018 AS AMENDED ON 02 MAY 2023 AS AMENDED ON 02 MAY 2023AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 14 NOV 2023 as amended on 09 Dec 2025

Website

www.cardiffu3a.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth