OXFORD UNIVERSITY STUDENT UNION

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  4 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. OXFORD UNIVERSITY STUDENT UNION 2010-09-14 → present
2. OUSU 2010-07-14 → 2010-09-14

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Crowe U.K. LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. OXFORD UNIVERSITY STUDENT UNION · parent
   1. OSSL Limited · England and Wales · primarily printing and distribution of student publications and running student events such as the annual freshers' fair.

Significant events

• “The 2024/25 academic year has been a transformational year for Oxford SU. Following a change of Senior Leadership in February 2024, a strategic decision was reached by the Trustees to put the charity into a period of turnaround, in partnership with the institution to address recurrent areas of dysfunction both internally and within the wider eco-system of the collegiate University.”
• “The appointment of a Change Director in July 2024 marked the beginnings of the transformation period in earnest and a significant piece of organisational analysis was undertaken spanning the past decade of the charity.”
• “A full governance review was undertaken in 2024/25 which included student consultation and co-creation of new articles and byelaws for the Charity.”
• “A major reform implemented during 2024/25 was the shift from an elections-based system to a recruitment-based approach for Divisional Representatives.”
• “In 2024 Oxford SU commissioned three major student Policy Associate research projects, with two focusing on academic representation issues.”
• “Following the democracy review and consultations with each campaign group, a decision was taken to pivot campaigns into Part time officers for the academic year 2025/26 and to wind down traditional campaign activity throughout 2024/25 academic year.”
• “In Hilary Term 2025, Oxford SU announced changes to the roles of the major office holders of the SU from 6 portfolios with a President, to 4 portfolios with no President.”
• “After an extensive consultation period, external review and cost benefit analysis exercise a decision was taken to support the Oxford Student to establish themselves as an independent CIC to manage risk to the charity.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

20

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

8

last 12 months

Officers resigned

4

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +8.6%

  £155,082 → £168,453

• Cash

  +6%

  £169,807 → £179,923

• Net assets

  +36.2%

  £157,696 → £214,748

• Employees

  -31.3%

  16 → 11

• Wages

  -13.6%

  £572,100 → £494,219

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers