THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF NEWNHAM COLLEGE

Registered charity 1137512 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEWNHAM COLLEGE, NEWNHAM COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Newnham College is a college of the University of Cambridge and provides higher education and research

Objects

(A) TO FURTHER PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING A LIBERAL EDUCATION AND PROMOTING LEARNING AND RESEARCH THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A COLLEGE FOR WOMEN WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. (B) TO DO ALL SUCH OTHER THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO ADVANCING EDUCATION AND LEARNING AMONG WOMEN IN 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 operates with a fundamental mismatch between operational income and expenditure, relying on investment gains and philanthropy to bridge the gap. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £172.74m, providing stability for the institution to operate in perpetuity despite an operational deficit of £3.85m.

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 24/05/2024, 24 days after the 30/04/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jacqueline Morgan — Principal (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); recorded price paid £1.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~52.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Jacqueline Morganchair
• Christopher Lawrence
• Dr BARBARA BLACKLAWS
• Dr Carol Wendy Atack
• Dr Caroline Mary Lanskey
• Dr Helen Taylor
• Dr Katherine Fleet
• Dr Sheila Watts
• Dr Sue Jones
• Eve North
• Leah Madelaine Schmidt
• Natalie Sen-Yen Ng
• Pauline Eller
• Professor Christina Potter
• Professor Maria Ubiali
• Professor Yael Navaro

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 THE KING'S COLLEGE OF OUR LADY AND SAINT NICHOLAS IN CAMBRIDGE.

• THE KING'S COLLEGE OF OUR LADY AND SAINT NICHOLAS IN CAMBRIDGE income £24.4m
• WADHAM COLLEGE income £24.1m
• 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
• TRINITY HALL CAMBRIDGE income £16.4m
• CHURCHILL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £28.6m

Side by side with its peers

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