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Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 4
  • Pension deficit: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER

Provision of higher and further education.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 21 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • There is a pension deficit of £340,000
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/07/23£138,343£146,553£-8,210£0£81,522£81,0876.61,5730
31/07/22£135,775£142,253£-6,478£0£90,505£90,0747.61,5370
31/07/21£122,701£128,353£-5,652£0£27,758£27,3352.61,5650
31/07/20£119,745£124,364£-4,619£0£44,543£44,1384.31,5950
31/07/19£127,247£124,080£3,167£0£70,088£69,6886.71,5990
31/07/18£128,436£118,312£10,124£0£80,185£79,7908.11,5260
31/07/17£121,266£113,652£7,614£0£64,167£63,8016.71,5040
31/07/16£119,403£119,159£244£0£51,570£51,2155.21,5880
31/07/15£119,954£110,933£9,021£134£80,580£44,0744.81,4590
31/07/14£104,464£95,279£9,185£107£74,365£40,8625.11,3160
31/07/13£87,809£83,010£4,798£92£42,534£29,6424.31,2440
31/07/12£79,802£76,680£3,123£94£34,242£20,9603.31,2240
31/07/11£79,688£78,306£1,382£96£39,347£26,41341,2480
31/07/10£79,859£75,379£4,481£84£29,197£17,9162.91,2210
31/07/09?£97,995£92,116£5,879£153£18,243£10,4751.41,1620
31/03/08£14,936£14,187£748£576£8,376£8,232730
31/03/07£14,535£13,909£626£650£7,644£7,5916.570
31/03/06*£2,040£1,747£293n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£2,035£1,562£472n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£2,671£1,346£1,326n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £250,000-£300,000
Liabilities/Assets: 50%
Liabilities/Income: 60%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 6.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 62 years

www.chester.ac.uk

A.PARKER@CHESTER.AC.UK

01244512902

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Religious Activities
GiG Classification
  • Colleges and universities
How it operates
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester, Shropshire, Warrington,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - MetaNurse - Mixed Reality Simulation for Nursing Training
£38,084 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10033687
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Development of a robotic maintenance system for wind turbine blades (ROMAIN)
£51,341 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10040791
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Smart multifunctional textile with printed electronics to promote healthy ageing in musculoskeletal conditions
£17,066 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10034862
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Self-sensing wind turbine composite blades for structural health monitoring (SMARTBLADE)
£12,493 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=104030
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - The Net Zero NW Cluster Plan
£6,336 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=76921
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - NetFLOX-XXL Transforming chicken farming with scalable, automated welfare indexing and environmental footprinting
£50,625 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10027697
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - HyNet (Onshore) - Hydrogen and CCS
£579,409 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=78507
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - REcyclable MArine Structure Towards Emission Reduction (REMASTER)
£77,118 01/09/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10008634
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (21)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 20/21 persons

Age Range of Trustees:
  • CATHERINE BOND Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
  • DAVID BRIGGS Appointed: 2018
  • DR ANGELA MARIA SEENEY Appointed: 2019
  • JEANNIE FRANCE-HAYHURST Appointed: 2016
  • KAREN HOWELL Appointed: 2016
  • KATE NWOSU AARON-EFE Appointed: 2022
  • LYNETTE SIEMERS Appointed: 2023
  • LILLIAN WATSON Appointed: 2024
  • MARCUS PHILIP CLINTON Appointed: 2018
  • PETER WALLACH Appointed: 2022
  • PROFESSOR ANGELA EILEEN SIMPSON-MCEWAN Appointed: 2023
  • PROFESSOR CHARLES FORSDICK Appointed: 2017
  • PROFESSOR EUNICE ANGELA SIMMONS Appointed: 2020
  • PROFESSOR HELEN MARY O'SULLIVAN Appointed: 2021
  • PROFESSOR STEVEN BROOMHEAD Appointed: 2020
  • RAZIA DANIELS Appointed: 2020
  • SARA POPPLEWELL Appointed: 2022
  • STEPHEN DOBSON Appointed: 2022
  • THE RT REVD MARK SIMON AUSTIN TANNER Appointed: 2020
  • THE VERY REVEREND DR TIMOTHY RICHARD STRATFORD Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Dean Of Chester Cathedral
  • THOMAS EMMENT MJ DAVID OBE (Chair) Appointed: 2016
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/01/1963, number: 525938
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
  • Investment
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR06: 0 days late, AR05: 8 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from RAIKES SCHOLARSHIP FUND on 28/11/2019
  • Asset transfer in from CHESTER TWIN on 17/03/2020
Main office

University of Chester
Grosvenor House
Parkgate Road
CHESTER
CH1 4BJ

Objectives

THE PROVISION MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A COLLEGE FOR THE HIGHER AND FURTHER EDUCATION OF MEN AND WOMEN, INCLUDING THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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