HOMERTON COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1137497 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

For the public benefit to advance education, religion, learning and research within the University of Cambridge. For the public benefit to provide for persons who shall be members of the University a College wherein they may work for degrees of the University of Cambridge.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £122,685,000 as of 30 June 2025, with a surplus from income and expenditure of £2,875,000 for the year. The charity has no contingent liabilities and maintains a balanced pension scheme position with no net deficit recorded in the balance sheet.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• ​Charter Choir of Homerton College Cambridge, to tour in Gibraltar this week gbc.gi · 11/07/2022
• Feilden Fowles unites the strange and familiar at Homerton College Cambridge ribaj.com · 05/07/2022
• Homerton College, Cambridge dining hall: good enough to eat in theguardian.com · 15/05/2022
• Homerton College Cambridge Design Competition 2017 - e-architect e-architect.com · 22/03/2017
• Homerton College Cambridge Building Competition News - e-architect e-architect.com · 06/08/2016

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Alison Wood — Principal (source)
• Deborah Griffin — Bursar (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~109.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (34% 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: 2.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Gavin Miles James Davies
• Dr Georgina Horrell
• Dr Josephine Sheila O'Donoghue
• Dr Juliana Guimaraes Cavalcanti
• Dr Junius Olivier
• Dr Katherine Victoria Boyle
• Dr Matthew Norton
• Dr Olivier Tonneau
• Lord Simon Woolley
• Professor David Belin · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHRIST'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FIRST FOUNDED BY KING HENRY VI OF ENGLAND AND AFTER HIS DEATH.

• CHRIST'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FIRST FOUNDED BY KING HENRY VI OF ENGLAND AND AFTER HIS DEATH income £37.3m
• HUGHES HALL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £16.7m
• FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £20.3m
• CHURCHILL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £28.6m
• ST JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE income £58.7m
• 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.