ST HILDA'S COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Registered charity 1137537 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST HILDA'S COLLEGE

To provide education and residential accommodation for women and men who are members of the College and the University of Oxford.To maintain, continue and develop the College ethos and tradition of providing encouragement and support in academic research and education undertaken by women and men.To do all other such things as are incidental or conducive to support the above.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that an independent audit was performed by Crowe UK LLP for the year ended 31 July 2025. The auditor identified risks related to income recognition timing and management override of controls within the subsidiary. The report confirms the auditor's eligibility under the Companies Act 2006 and is addressed solely to the charity's trustees.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Dame Sarah Springman — 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)

9 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (9 freehold); recorded price paid £29.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (60% 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: 4.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Thomas · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christopher Wood
• DR Lorraine Wild
• DR Sarah Jane Norman
• Dr Barbara Havelkova
• Dr Catherine Elizabeth Swales
• Dr Daniel Peter Bulte
• Dr ELINOR PAYNE
• Dr HANNAH ELIZABETH SMITH
• Dr KERSTIN HOGE
• Dr Louise Hanson
• Dr MARGARET KEAN
• Dr Matthew Hoban
• Dr Matthew Parrott
• Dr PHILIPPA ANNE HULLEY
• Dr REBECCA MARGARET ARMSTRONG
• Dr STEPHEN BENEDICT MCHUGH
• Malachi McIntosh
• PROFESSOR DANIEL LESLIE WAKELIN
• Prof Lorna Joyce Smith · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor ARIS KATZOURAKIS
• Professor Anders Bredahl Kock
• Professor Catherine Ruth Schenk
• Professor Charlotte Stagg
• Professor Claire Gwenlan
• Professor DAVID ALASTAIR HOWEY
• Professor Dame Sarah Marcella Springman DBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Dev Saif Gangjee
• Professor Dmitry Filatov
• Professor HELEN JANE SWIFT
• Professor Julia Alison Noble · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor Naomi Wray
• Professor Rachel Condry
• Professor SELINA TODD
• Robin Thompson

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF ST HUGH'S COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

• THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF ST HUGH'S COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £15.3m
• ORLEY FARM SCHOOL TRUST income £9.6m
• THE MASTER AND SCHOLARS OF BALLIOL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £18.8m
• WESTMINSTER COLLEGE TRUST, OXFORD income £645k
• SHIPLAKE COURT LIMITED income £16.2m
• ST EDMUND HALL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £15.5m

Side by side with its peers

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