GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FOUNDED IN HONOUR OF THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE BLESSED MARY THE VIRGIN

Registered charity 1137536 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE, GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Gonville and Caius College is a place of education, religion, learning and research in the University of Cambridge. The College provides, in conjunction with the University of Cambridge, an education for some 800 students that is recognised internationally as being of the highest standard. This education develops students academically and prepares them to play full and effective roles in society

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the College holds free reserves of £142.1m, derived from its investment portfolio, which are considered integral to operations and provide support against economic uncertainty. The College reports a total surplus for the year of £432,000, supported by significant investment income and endowment returns. The Trustees confirm the College has sufficient resources to meet liabilities as they fall due, maintaining a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PEM Audit Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Richard Gilbertson — Master (source)
• Professor Peter Robinson — 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Oxford English Dictionary — “Dr Stephen Turton is to lead a project to digitise the letters which enabled the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, after receiving.…” (source page)

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

Reported reserves equal ~121.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CALLY HAMMOND REVD DR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Andrew Spencer
• Dr Anita Bunyan
• Dr Helen Mott
• Dr KATE MILES
• Dr Rebecca Sugden
• Dr Vasileios Kotsidis
• Dr William Handley
• PROFESSOR PETER ROBINSON
• Professor David Secher
• Professor Michelle Ellefson
• Professor Richard James Gilbertson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Jill Tebbutt · 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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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 MASTER AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OR HALL OF SAINT CATHARINE THE VIRGIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £19.9m
• CHURCHILL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £28.6m
• GIRTON COLLEGE income £17.3m
• 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

Side by side with its peers

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