HUGHES HALL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1137471 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HUGHES HALL

The charities activities are to endow, maintain and carry on a College in Cambridge for graduates and for mature-age students qualified to be matriculated in the University of Cambridge and to promote education, learning and research in the University of Cambridge and elsewhere.

Objects

A) TO ENDOW, MAINTAIN AND CARRY ON A COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE FOR GRADUATES AND FOR STUDENTS QUALIFIED TO BE MATRICULATED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;B) TO PROMOTE EDUCATION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE AND ELSEWHERE.

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.

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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 recorded a total comprehensive income of £1.73m for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £11.79m and ordinary expenditure of £9.92m. Per the trustees' report, the College holds free reserves of £15.71m, which exceeds its stated policy target of six months' operational expenditure (£4.32m).

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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sir Laurie Bristow — President (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 (4,128 followers) · instagram (6,830 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~35.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (51% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Beth Mollett
• DR Martin Steinfeld
• Dr AGNIESZKA IWASIEWICZ-WABNIG
• Dr Alicia Gonzalez-Diaz
• Dr Bart de Nijs
• Dr CORINNE ROUGHLEY
• Dr Caroline Trotter
• Dr Clive Wells
• Dr Emmanuela Maria Wroth
• Dr Farah Ahmed
• Dr Florian Jaeckle
• Dr Gishan Dissanaike
• Dr Guillermo Serrano Najera
• Dr Harriet Kaili Sarah Wright
• Dr JESSICA WHITE
• Dr Jeff Skopek
• Dr Jimmy Suen Yan Chan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Joe Ellis
• Dr Kennedy Mbeva
• Dr Lars Vinx
• Dr MARKUS GEHRING · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Malgorzata Zofia Marschall
• Dr Maria Liapopoulou
• Dr Matteo Zallio
• Dr Mikkel Kenni Bruun
• Dr Natasha Sally Raudon
• Dr Othman Cole
• Dr Rachel Adams
• Dr Riikka Hofmann
• Dr Sarah Hoare
• Dr Sonia Ilie
• Dr Tiago Manuel Lourenco Azevedo
• Dr Tori McKee
• Dr Vasiliki Mavridou
• Dr WILLIAM NUTTALL
• Dr Zhiwu Wei
• Emily Farnworth
• James Nicholson Bowers
• Jane Mann
• Kerry Wilson

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HUGGENS'S COLLEGE.

• HUGGENS'S COLLEGE income £345k
• THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF ST HUGH'S COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £15.3m
• HOMERTON COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE income £21.2m
• TRINITY HALL CAMBRIDGE income £16.4m
• FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £20.3m
• HIGHAM HALL COLLEGE income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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