Union Foundation

Training people for the Christian Ministry

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

In Wales

• Bridgend

Area of benefit in its governing document: United Kingdom, Overseas and South Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £1,600,605 and spent £1,757,283.

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 13%, from £1,411,997 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £1,600,605 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 110% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

SaRang Community Church gave £21,372 in the year to 31 August 2025, 1% 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 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 August 2025, the charity named 1 funder who gave £21,372. £0 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

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.

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.

11 trustees run the charity.

• Rev Sam KoChairAppointed 5 April 2011
• Daniel HendersonAppointed 15 December 2023
• Dr Ernest Edem EdiforAppointed 22 May 2023
• Dr Gwenfair AdamsAppointed 10 September 2021
• Dr Myung Chul ShinAppointed 11 September 2020
• Ki Il KimAppointed 24 February 2023
• Rev Mike TindallAppointed 8 August 2014
• Rev Stephen Mark LevyAppointed 14 September 2018
• Thomas WinklehnerAppointed 12 September 2025
• Trevor ArcherAppointed 24 February 2023
• Yun LeeAppointed 26 February 2021

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

517324

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

18 March 1986

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07 FEB 1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25 JUN 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 MAR 2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 FEB 2011AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 19 OCT 2016 as amended on 29 Dec 2023 as amended on 02 Feb 2023

Company number

01987227This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.ust.ac.ukAs 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.
• 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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