THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF SOMERVILLE COLLEGE

Registered charity 1139440 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide for members of the University of Oxford the protection and training of an academic house.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets grew by £9.6m to £247.6m, driven by endowment growth and donations. However, the filing notes that free reserves were significantly eroded by the impact of Covid-19 and now stand at a deficit of £(0.2)m, although designated unrestricted reserves of £137m cover the value of fixed assets.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £475k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~89.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW PARKER · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANNIE SUTHERLAND
• Anastasia Ignatieva
• Catherine Royle · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charlotte Potts
• Colin Phillips · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr BEATE DIGNAS
• Dr BENJAMIN THOMPSON MA PHD
• Dr DANIEL ANTHONY
• Dr Faridah Zaman
• Dr Francesca Arduini
• Dr Francesca Southerden
• Dr JONATHAN BURTON
• Dr JULIE DICKSON
• Dr LUKE PITCHER BA MA MST
• Dr MICHAEL HAYWARD
• Dr Markos Koumaditis
• Dr NATALIA MAGDALENA NOWAKOWSKA
• Dr PHILIP WEST
• Dr SIMON KEMP
• Dr Samantha Dieckmann
• Dr Steve Rayner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Thaddeus Komacek
• Iyiola Solanke
• Konstantina Vogiatzaki
• PROFESSOR CHARLES SPENCE PHD
• PROFESSOR FIONA STAFFORD SPARKES FRSE
• PROFESSOR LOIS MCNAY
• PROFESSOR STEPHEN ROBERTS
• Professor Almut Suerbaum · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Christopher Hare
• Professor Dale Dorsey
• Professor Damian Tyler
• Professor Dan Ciubotaru
• Professor Elena Seiradake
• Professor Emily Flashman
• Professor Karen Nielsen
• Professor Louise Mycock
• Professor Michelle Jackson
• Professor Owens Patricia

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
• THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE LADY MARGARET IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £16.7m
• THE MASTER AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE GREAT HALL OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMONLY CALLED UNIVERSITY COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £23.4m
• THE RECTOR AND SCHOLARS OF EXETER COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £14.6m
• WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD income £20.3m
• THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF MANSFIELD COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £15.1m

Side by side with its peers

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