THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF WOLFSON COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1138143 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WOLFSON COLLEGE, WOLFSON COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE, WOLFSON COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, WOLFSON COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, WOLFSON COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Wolfson College is one of the 31 colleges in the University of Cambridge.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH IN THE UNIVERSITY;B) TO PROVIDE FOR MEN OR WOMEN 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.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

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 reported a total comprehensive income of £7.84m for the year ended 30 June 2025, driven by a surplus of £7.00m and investment gains. Per the trustees' report, the College maintains a strong financial position with total net assets of £95.96m and realisable unrestricted reserves of £3.89m, which fall within the stated policy target range of £2.80m to £5.60m.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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

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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £3.9m. 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 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Ijeoma Florence Uchegbuchair
• David John Goode
• Dr Adam Christopher Welstead
• Dr Alex James Trinidad
• Dr Ana Luisa Toribio
• Dr Judith Collis
• Dr Kevin Mark Greenbank
• Dr Martin David Vestergaard
• Joanna Hilary Cheffins
• Professor Adrian Patrick Antony Kent · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Anna Rosalind Hollis
• Professor Melody Susan Clark
• Professor Paul Gulab Ramchandani
• Simon Philip Crookall

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WOLFSON COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

• WOLFSON COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £13.6m
• THE MASTER FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £22.9m
• SELWYN COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE income £15.1m
• FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £20.3m
• CHURCHILL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £28.6m
• THE COLLEGE OF THE LADY FRANCES SIDNEY SUSSEX IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £14.2m

Side by side with its peers

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