Uswsu

Extra-curricular and development opportunities through sports teams, clubs and societies. Community volunteering and fundraising.Democratic engagement of students through its' governance structures creating employability skills. The development of cultural and civic values such as tolerance and social cohesion, in order to have a wider and positive influence on social and political development.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff
• Newport City
• Rhondda Cynon Taf

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 July 2025, it had income of £2,085,898 and spent £1,988,292.

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 14%, from £1,825,943 in the year to 30 June 2021 to £2,085,898 in the year to 31 July 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 95% of its income in the year to 31 July 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

University of South Wales Grant gave £1,446,000 in the year to 31 July 2025, 69% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

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 July 2025: £60,000 from 4 grants. 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 July 2025, the charity named 1 funder who gave £1,446,000. £0 of that came from public bodies.

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Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £4,800, awarded in 2016.

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.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Emilie TappingChairAppointed 30 September 2024
• Amy Louise CooperAppointed 1 July 2026
• Katrina CooksonAppointed 26 June 2025
• Md Meraz MIAAppointed 1 July 2026
• Michael Chigozie AnasonyeAppointed 1 July 2026
• Razifa YeasminAppointed 1 July 2026
• Richard Main MBEAppointed 24 September 2023

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

1153572

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

29 August 2013

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29 JUL 2013

Company number

08629047This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.uswsu.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 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
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Rhondda Cynon Taf's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda