THE QUEENS' COLLEGE OF SAINT MARGARET AND SAINT BERNARD IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1137495 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMONLY KNOWN AS QUEENS' COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, QUEENS' COLLEGE

A College in the University of Cambridge

Objects

A COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FOR STUDY AND PRAYER.(IN DICTA UNIVERSITATE NOSTRA CANTEBR, MORATURORUM AD STUDENDUM ET ORANDUM)

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 an unrestricted deficit of £1,647,000 for the year ended 30 June 2025, driven by high inflation and limited ability to increase regulated academic fees. Per the trustees' report, the College's net free reserves stood at £9.65 million, which is modestly above the stated target of £7.55 million, providing a buffer against economic volatility despite the challenging operating environment.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~36.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

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 THE MASTER FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

• 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
• THE KING'S COLLEGE OF OUR LADY AND SAINT NICHOLAS IN CAMBRIDGE income £24.4m
• CHURCHILL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £28.6m
• THE COLLEGE OF ST MARY MAGDALENE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £15.1m
• CLARE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE income £16.0m

Side by side with its peers

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