Bridgend University of the Third Age (U3a)

Provide educational and recreational activities for retired people. These include writing, reading, history and art and in addition there are table tennis and walking groups.

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

In Wales

• Bridgend

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

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £5,011 and spent £3,872.

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 1,016%, from £449 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £5,011 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 77% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £4,453, awarded in 2006.

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.

12 trustees run the charity.

• Denise JonesAppointed 16 May 2016
• Diane WardAppointed 16 May 2022
• Elizabeth LaneAppointed 17 June 2024
• Jan KirbyAppointed 16 May 2022
• Jennifer DaviesAppointed 16 May 2022
• Linda JonesAppointed 17 June 2024
• Mari Ann Roberts-SnellAppointed 17 June 2024
• Mary PolandAppointed 20 May 2024
• Philip John WilliamsAppointed 12 May 2021
• Philippa StettleAppointed 19 May 2025
• Sheila LewisAppointed 17 June 2024
• Shirley JonesAppointed 25 May 2016

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, 4 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

1080658

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

10 May 2000

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 17 JANUARY 2000, AS AMENDED ON 19TH MAY 2003AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 12 JUL 2018 as amended on 17 Jan 2023

Website

www.u3asites.org.uk/bridgend/welcomeAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Bridgend

• 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

• OpenCouncil: Bridgend Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Bridgend's economy in figures
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• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg