THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF MURRAY EDWARDS COLLEGE, FOUNDED AS NEW HALL, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1137530 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MURRAY EDWARDS COLLEGE, NEW HALL, THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF NEW HALL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Advancement of education, learning and research in the University of Cambridge with a commitment to the highest standards of education for women of all backgrounds

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH IN THE UNIVERSITYB) TO PROVIDE FOR PERSONS WHO SHALL BE MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY A COLLEGE WHEREIN THEY MAY WORK FOR DEGREES IN THE UNIVERSITY OR MAY CARRY OUT POSTGRADUATE OR OTHER SPECIAL STUDIES AT 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.

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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's financial position remains stable, with free reserves of £13.3m providing a buffer against adversity. The College projects cash flows and stress tests to prepare for uncertainties, noting that while it faces challenges common to the higher education sector, it continues to make progress on reducing long-term debt.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Oxford 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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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).

• Maths Immersion Day at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge: Shaping the future of STEM for GDST students gdst.net · 02/04/2026

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dorothy Byrne — President (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)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~12.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (49% 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: 5.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrea Tam
• Dr Evaleila Pesaran · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Gavin Stevenson
• Dr MARTHA KATE PETERS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Michele Gemelos
• Dr Noam Tal-Perry
• Dr Paola Filippucci
• Dr Rachel Anne Polonsky
• Dr Stuart Palmer
• James Paul Dougal
• Professor Michael Meredith
• Professor Raphael Thomas Richard Lyne
• Professor Stephen Morris
• Robert Hopwood

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

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 AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OR HALL OF SAINT CATHARINE THE VIRGIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

• THE MASTER AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OR HALL OF SAINT CATHARINE THE VIRGIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £19.9m
• THE MASTER FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £22.9m
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• CHURCHILL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £28.6m
• THE COLLEGE OF ST MARY MAGDALEN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £53.5m
• THE KING'S COLLEGE OF OUR LADY AND SAINT NICHOLAS IN CAMBRIDGE income £24.4m

Side by side with its peers

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