Usk University of the Third Age (U3a)

Usk U3A provides varied opportunities for older and retired people to take part in activities - including talks and lectures, visits, book groups, bridge and other games, gardening, walking. quizzes and voluntary work - which provide continuing learning, intellectual and physical experiences, and which foster social engagement, health benefits and independence.

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

In Wales

• Monmouthshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £4,724 and spent £5,236.

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 81%, from £2,603 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £4,724 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 111% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 5 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.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Francis Keith EdwardsAppointed 26 August 2020
• Joan ClarkeAppointed 26 August 2020
• Reg DargeAppointed 22 March 2011
• Wendy Mary YoungAppointed 26 August 2020

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

1180731

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

16 November 2018

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 07 APR 2008

Website

usku3a.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Monmouthshire

• 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

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