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

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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.

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 (3.8%) (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 Harriet Fleet
• Dr Sheila Watts
• Eve North
• Leah Madelaine Schmidt
• Natalie Sen-Yen Ng
• Pauline Eller
• Prof Sinead Agnew
• 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 ST JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.

• ST JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE income £58.7m
• THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE LADY MARGARET IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £16.7m
• THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF SOMERVILLE COLLEGE income £20.0m
• CHURCHILL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £28.6m
• JESUS COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £31.1m
• THE MASTER AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OR HALL OF SAINT CATHARINE THE VIRGIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £19.9m

Side by side with its peers

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