HOMERTON COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1137497 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q741880 · Wikipedia

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.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, RELIGION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE AND TO PROVIDE FOR PERSONS WHO SHALL BE MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE A COLLEGE WHEREIN THEY MAY WORK FOR DEGREES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

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 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.

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
• 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.

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
• ‘I no longer feel an impostor’ – equalities activist Simon Woolley prepares to lead Homerton College Cambridge inews.co.uk · 07/05/2021
• 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (10,165 followers) · instagram (11K followers)

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 (3.7%) (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

Common questions

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 HUGHES HALL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

• HUGHES HALL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £16.7m
• CLARE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE income £16.0m
• CHESHUNT COLLEGE (CAMBRIDGE) income £194k
• FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £20.3m
• THE MASTER FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £22.9m
• HORTON BANK EDUCATION CENTRE income £213k

Side by side with its peers

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