THE UNION, MMU

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  5 officer resignations in last 12 months

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

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

Dains Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. THE UNION, MMU · parent
   1. Manchester Metropolitan Students' Union Trading Limited 100% · provides services to a mix of students and non-students including a public house and some entertainments provision.

Significant events

• “The recommendations from the commercial review undertaken in the latter part of the 2023/24 financial year have now been implemented, which included Trustees releasing reserves funds for capital investment in the building.”
• “A staff restructure was implemented in the Spring of 2025 to deliver budgetary savings and align resource with the new strategy.”
• “During the 24/25 financial year, a number of new independent Trustees joined the Board including a new Chair.”
• “In July 2024, The Union, MMU exited the SUSS scheme, following a complete buyout funded by the Manchester Metropolitan University.”

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

5

last 12 months

Officers resigned

5

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  -53.2%

  £8,671,748 → £4,062,091

• Cash

  -6.1%

  £1,381,941 → £1,298,029

• Net assets

  -20.5%

  £1,620,147 → £1,288,084

• Employees

  -14.7%

  129 → 110

• Wages

  -1.5%

  £2,245,175 → £2,211,817

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