CHRIST CHURCH STUDENTS' UNION

Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
As the Students' Union for Canterbury Christ Church University, we are the representative body for the students of the University, providing educational support, social and recreational activities that enhance student life and increase employability prospects and promote the interests of our members at all time. For more information please see www.ccsu.co.uk
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 30 June 2024
Total income:
£1,098,033
Donations and legacies | £952.24k | |
Charitable activities | £135.39k | |
Other trading activities | £0 | |
Investments | £10.40k | |
Other | £0 |
Total expenditure:
£1,133,293
Raising funds | £18.80k | |
Charitable activities | £1.11m | |
Other | £0 |
£0 investments gains (losses)
Charitable expenditure
Charitable expenditure with investment gains
Charitable expenditure
Some charities generate all, or a substantial part, of their income from investments which may have been donated to the charity as endowment or set aside by the charity from its own resources in the past. Such investments usually take the form of stocks and shares but may include other assets, such as property, that are capable of generating income and/or capital growth.
In managing their spending and investments charities need to strike a balance between the needs of future and current beneficiaries. They also need to take account of spending commitments that may stretch over a number of future years. To do this, charities will normally adopt an investment strategy designed to generate both income and capital growth. To maximise returns trustees may commit to investment strategies for several years.
Investments can experience large swings in value so trustees may, in a particular year, decide to realise and spend part of their charity’s capital or to invest part of its income.
By clicking the investment gains checkbox the charitable spending bar is adjusted to take account of capital growth as well as income. This shows the balance the charity is striking, between spending on current beneficiaries and retaining resources for future beneficiaries.
Raising funds and other expenditure | £18.80k | |
Charitable expenditure | £1.11m |
People

16 Employee(s)
14 Trustee(s)
250 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
Number of employees | |
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£60k to £70k | 1 |
Fundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- General Charitable Purposes
- Education/training
- Amateur Sport
- Recreation
- Children/young People
- Other Defined Groups
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Kent
Governance
- 28 June 2011: Standard registration
- CCSU (Working name)
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
14 Trustee(s)
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Samuel Edwin Newman | Trustee | 27 January 2025 |
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Rudra Prasad Banerjee | Trustee | 27 January 2025 |
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Kirsty Bridget Claire McDonnell | Trustee | 27 January 2025 |
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Raymond Sai-Wai Shuai | Trustee | 16 October 2024 |
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Niamh Catherine Downing | Trustee | 10 September 2024 |
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Molly Emma Davies | Trustee | 01 July 2024 |
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Ali Raza Ghega | Trustee | 01 July 2024 |
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Sadia Haleema | Trustee | 01 July 2024 |
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Thomas Luke Wren-Lowry | Trustee | 20 May 2024 |
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Hannah May Louise Sketchley | Trustee | 15 May 2024 |
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Simran Thapa | Trustee | 17 April 2024 |
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Graham Owen Briscoe | Trustee | 18 October 2019 |
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Michael Wigg | Trustee | 06 July 2018 |
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Joseph Cooper | Trustee | 24 June 2016 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
Income / Expenditure | 31/07/2020 | 30/06/2021 | 30/06/2022 | 30/06/2023 | 30/06/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £1.02m | £798.12k | £1.01m | £1.15m | £1.10m | |
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Total expenditure | £962.33k | £713.74k | £1.02m | £1.05m | £1.13m | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | £25.00k | £4.00k | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £796.83k | £723.78k | £796.37k | £939.70k | £952.24k | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £224.74k | £72.62k | £217.28k | £199.54k | £135.39k | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Investment | £1.64k | £1.73k | £1.16k | £8.76k | £10.40k | |
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Income - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £952.25k | £712.46k | £1.01m | £1.03m | £1.11m | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £10.09k | £1.28k | £12.49k | £10.61k | £18.80k | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £0 | £49.31k | £91.04k | £74.37k | £89.15k | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
Assets and liabilities
Definitions for assets and liabilities
These are assets, other than investments, which are held for more than 12 months and used to run and administer the charity such as buildings, offices, exhibits and fixtures and fittings.
Long term InvestmentsInvestments are assets held by the charity with the sole aim of generating income which will be used for their charitable purposes such as deposit accounts, shares, rental property and unit trusts.
Investment assets are re-valued every year and included in the balance sheet at their current market value.
Long term investments are held for more than 12 months.
These are assets held generally for less than 12 months such as cash and bank balances, debtors, investments to be sold within the coming year and trading stock.
Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liabilityThis is a surplus or deficit in any defined benefit pension scheme operated and represents a potential long-term asset or liability.
Total liabilitiesThese are all the amounts owed by the charity at the balance sheet date to third parties such as bills due but not yet paid, bank overdrafts and loans and mortgages.
Asset / Liability | 31/07/2020 | 30/06/2021 | 30/06/2022 | 30/06/2023 | 30/06/2024 | ||
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Own use assets | £16.64k | £12.64k | £15.82k | £33.38k | £260.90k | |
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Long-term investments | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Other assets | £392.13k | £488.52k | £507.89k | £695.75k | £398.05k | |
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Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Total liabilities | £72.17k | £80.17k | £111.30k | £214.22k | £179.30k |
Accounts and annual returns
Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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Annual return | 30 June 2024 | 05 December 2024 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2024 | 05 December 2024 | On Time | |
Annual return | 30 June 2023 | 04 March 2024 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2023 | 04 March 2024 | On Time | |
Annual return | 30 June 2022 | 16 December 2022 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2022 | 16 December 2022 | On Time | |
Annual return | 30 June 2021 | 28 October 2021 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2021 | 28 October 2021 | On Time | |
Annual return | 31 July 2020 | 28 January 2021 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 July 2020 | 28 January 2021 | On Time |
Governing document
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28/04/2011 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/07/2014 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/12/2015 as amended on 22 Oct 2020 as amended on 06 Apr 2021 as amended on 06 Apr 2021
Charitable objects
THE UNIONS CHARITABLE OBJECTS ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: 4.1 BEING ACKNOWLEDGED AS THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE BODY FOR ALL STUDENTS ENROLLED ON A RECOGNISED PROGRAMME OF STUDY AT CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY. 4.2 PROMOTING THE INTERESTS OF STUDENTS AT CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY DURING THEIR COURSE OF STUDY AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING MEMBERS. 4.3 BEING ACKNOWLEDGED AS THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN THE STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY AND A REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN THE STUDENTS AND ANY OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES. 4.4 PROVIDING SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR MEMBERS. 4.5 PROMOTING CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. 4.6 PROMOTING THE WELFARE AND INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT OF MEMBERS AND PROVIDING ADVICE SERVICES RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL AND WELFARE ISSUES. 4.7 RAISING FUNDS FOR OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS.
Contact information
- Address:
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Christ Church Students' Union
Mary Seacole
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent
CT1 1QU
- Phone:
- 01227924924
- Email:
- hello@ccsu.co.uk
- Website:
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