Finance Score: -7

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 9

Accounts overdue -5
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 2

UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER

The objects of the Uiversity shall be to advance education, through a variety of patterns, levels and modes of study and by a diversity of means by encouraging and developing learning and creativity for the benefit of the community in Northern Ireland and elsewhere to preserve, advance and disseminate knowledge and culture through teaching, scholarships and research and to take avail of the results of such research and to promote wisdom and understnding by the example and influence of corporate life

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently

Financial issues to consider:

Latest accounts are overdue for filing
There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 10 years

www.ulster.ac.uk

universitysecretary@ulster.ac.uk

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Year end	31/12/16	31/12/17	31/12/18	31/12/19	31/12/20	31/07/21	31/07/22
Income	£203,744,000	£204,427,000	£217,957,000	£214,526,000	£239,086,000	£239,086,000	£259,369,000
Spending	£190,137,000	£199,286,000	£250,575,000	£196,604,000	£222,807,000	£222,807,000	£300,474,000
Surplus/deficit	£13,607,000	£5,141,000	-£32,618,000	£17,922,000	£16,279,000	£16,279,000	-£41,105,000

Listed activities

The advancement of education

How it operates

Advice/advocacy/information, Education/training, Research/evaluation

Where it operates

Northern Ireland

Who it helps

General public

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years

Nuffield Foundation	£578,158
Joseph Rowntree Foundation	£264,629
Garfield Weston Foundation	£100,000
Alex Ferry Foundation	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Nuffield Foundation - Grant to Ulster University
£223,580	13/03/2023	Towards Improving Early Mathematical Skills by Supporting the Home Learning Environment
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Ulster University
£200,000	27/11/2021	Consolidating the Foundation for Gender Budgeting in Northern Ireland
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£100,000	03/09/2021	Northern Ireland Community Scholarships
Alex Ferry Foundation - AFF communuity grant
£10,000	30/07/2021	community grant
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Ulster University
£64,629	21/03/2020 12	Gender Budgeting
Nuffield Foundation - Justice Grant
£354,578	25/06/2019	Understanding and supporting legal participation for litigants in person
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Ulster University
£59,300	01/12/2018 12	Gender Budgeting
Nuffield Foundation - Justice grant
£5,473	21/04/2017	The impact of litigants in person on the Northern Ireland court system: a human rights analysis
Nuffield Foundation - Education grant
£62,043	11/03/2016	Interventions to improve mathematical achievement in primary school-aged children: A Systematic Review
Nuffield Foundation - Justice grant
£216,169	13/01/2016	The impact of litigants in person on the Northern Ireland court system: a human rights analysis

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Further information may be available on the charity's page on the Commission website here

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Northern Ireland on 14/08/2014, number: NIC100166

Main office

University Of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, County Londonderry, BT52 1SA

Data Sources