THE COLLEGE OR HALL OF VALENCE MARY COMMONLY PEMBROKE COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1137492 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PEMBROKE COLLEGE

The education of undergraduate and graduate students; research work, and the associated provision of accommodation, welfare, and catering services

Objects

IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR FOUNDING CHARTER AND STATUTES, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, RELIGION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF A COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE WHEREIN MEN AND WOMEN MAY UNDERTAKE STUDY.

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 · 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 total reserves decreased slightly from £335.1m to £324.1m, driven primarily by a £13m revaluation loss on Dolby Court. The Trustees consider the College a going concern, noting that unrestricted reserves of £218.8m provide significant headroom, although the College operates at a net operational loss that is supported by investment drawdown and philanthropic income.

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 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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 — Pembroke College, Cambridge (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rosalind Polly Blakesley — Master (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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram · linkedin

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

Reported reserves equal ~113.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PROFESSOR ROSALIND BLAKESLEYchair
• Ampor Guemes Gonzalez
• Carl Henrik Ek
• Daniela Passolt
• Dr ALEX HOUEN
• Dr ALEXEI SHADRIN
• Dr ANDREA FERRARI
• Dr Alice Raw
• Dr Amanda Prorok
• Dr Anil Madhavapeddy
• Dr Arthur Asseraf
• Dr Assef Ashraf
• Dr Daria Ezerova
• Dr Guillaume Hennequin
• Dr HILDEGARD DIEMBERGER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Hannes Ausserwoeger
• Dr Iza Hussin
• Dr JOHN DURRELL
• Dr Javier Antoran Cabiscol
• Dr Johannes Wanne Kromdijk
• Dr KATRIN ETTENHUBER
• Dr Lorenzo di-Michele
• Dr MARK RODERICK WORMALD
• Dr MINA GORJI
• Dr Maximilian Sternberg
• Dr Menna Clatworthy
• Dr Moreed Arbabzadah
• Dr NILANJANA DATTA
• Dr Nicholas Jones
• Dr Nicolo Crisafi
• Dr Paul Cavill
• Dr Rebecca Lammle
• Dr Robert John Mayhew
• Dr STEPHEN JOHN
• Dr Samir Canning
• Dr Sanne Cottaar
• Dr Sophia Goodfriend
• Dr Steven Ward
• Dr Timothy Thomas Weil · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr VIKRAM DESHPANDE

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 THE COLLEGE OF ST MARY MAGDALENE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

• THE COLLEGE OF ST MARY MAGDALENE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £15.1m
• THE MASTER AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OR HALL OF SAINT CATHARINE THE VIRGIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £19.9m
• CHURCHILL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £28.6m
• MASTER FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE income £21.4m
• THE QUEENS' COLLEGE OF SAINT MARGARET AND SAINT BERNARD IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £28.1m
• DOWNING COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £18.5m

Side by side with its peers

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