THE COLLEGE OF THE LADY FRANCES SIDNEY SUSSEX IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1137586 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

To further public good by promoting learning, study and teaching in a community of scholars in the University of Cambridge

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased by £6 million to £161.4 million, driven by investment gains, while the College recorded an operational surplus of £421k. However, the trustees report that free reserves of £5.92 million are below the calculated target of £10.24 million, a decrease attributed to the sale of liquid assets to fund a commercial property purchase. The financial outlook is described as challenging due to cost inflation and static undergraduate tuition fees.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr David Skinner — Director of Music (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). 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 ~106.0 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 (50% 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: 17.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Martin James Burtonchair
• Anna Baskerville
• Dr Alexander Eton
• Dr Bernhard Fulda · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Edward Wilson-Lee
• Dr Gerard Crossan
• Dr Harriet Cordelia Theed Groom
• Dr Katarina Harasimov
• Dr Ozge Oner
• Dr Sarah Millington
• Dr Victoria Harvey
• Finnian Orders
• Gautham Sathiaseelan
• Josephine Ellis
• Lawrence Berry
• Martin Dirk Pierce
• Matthew Ireland
• Professor Eugenio Biagini
• Professor Ljiljana Fruk
• Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral

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 CLARE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.

• CLARE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE income £16.0m
• DOWNING COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £18.5m
• CHURCHILL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £28.6m
• ROBINSON COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £11.2m
• ST JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE income £58.7m
• THE QUEENS' COLLEGE OF SAINT MARGARET AND SAINT BERNARD IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £28.1m

Side by side with its peers

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