JESUS COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1137462 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1146700 · Wikipedia · also known as JESUS COLLEGE

The College is a place of education, religion, learning and research

Objects

TO ESTABLISH A COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, LEARNING, RESEARCH, AND RELIGION

Area of benefit: CAMBRIDGESHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the College reported an operating shortfall of £8.1m and a net deficit of £0.7m for the year ended 30 June 2025, driven by rising staff and food costs outpacing income growth. Despite this deficit, the College maintains a robust net asset position of £395m and unrestricted reserves of £139m, supported by a Deficit Reduction Plan implemented to return to a sustainable surplus.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PEM Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Jesus College Cambridge (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Sir Edward Kay — “Following her death, Sir Edward left £4,500, to perpetuate her memory, to the College for the foundation of several ‘Lady Kay’ scholarships …” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (8,681 followers) · instagram (12K followers) · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~62.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 21.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sonita Charlene Alleyne OBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Aris Siorentas
• Ben Luca Atassi Quinton
• Benjamin Robert Sheen
• Dr Christopher Mark Burlinson
• Dr Christopher Phillip Town
• Dr Gareth Robert Wilkes
• Dr James Robert Bellingham
• Dr Julian Leon Huppert · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Olga Petri
• Dr Paul Anthony Dominiak
• Dr RICHARD FORBES ANTHONY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Georgios Psaltakis
• PROFESSOR HELEN LE BRETON SKAER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor James Peter Timothy Clackson
• Professor Jean Margaret Bacon
• Professor Sarah Jean Colvin
• Professor Stephen Gilmore
• Professor Timothy David Wilkinson
• Rian O'Kelly

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JESUS COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY AND CITY OF OXFORD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FOUNDATION.

• JESUS COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY AND CITY OF OXFORD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FOUNDATION income £13.6m
• CHURCHILL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £28.6m
• DOWNING COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £18.5m
• THE MASTER FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £22.9m
• THE MASTER AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OR HALL OF SAINT CATHARINE THE VIRGIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £19.9m
• CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY income £353.8m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.