The Swansea University of the Third Age

The charity encourages older people of all backgrounds no longer in full-time employment to engage in educational/cultural activities. They are helped to use their skills to teach and learn on an affordable basis within a wide selection of groups. The U3A seeks to demonstrate their continuing contributions to the community as a whole and to project a positive image of their place in society.

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

In Wales

• City of Swansea

Area of benefit in its governing document: Swansea and Its Surrounding Locality

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 5 April 2025, it had income of £16,126 and spent £13,335.

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 34%, from £12,000 in the year to 5 April 2021 to £16,126 in the year to 5 April 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 83% of its income in the year to 5 April 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 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 5 April 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £1,238, awarded in 2004.

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.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Adrian CrowleyAppointed 12 June 2019
• Barbara HagainAppointed 12 June 2019
• Chrys ShortAppointed 9 September 2025
• Gillian SheldonAppointed 12 October 2022
• Jayne Charlotte RedfernAppointed 18 June 2025
• Judith Helen MartinAppointed 19 March 2024
• Linda Christine MintonAppointed 18 June 2025
• Michael Robert BudgeAppointed 18 June 2025
• Patricia BoltAppointed 10 June 2026

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

1039347

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

11 July 1994

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 30 JUNE 1993 AS AMENDED 16 FEBRUARY 1994, 25 JUNE 2003, 28 JUNE 2006, AND 27 JUNE 2007.AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 12 JUL 2018

Website

u3aswansea.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• 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. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

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

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