THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF ST HUGH'S COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Registered charity 1139717 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q128497 · Wikipedia · also known as ST HUGH'S COLLEGE

The College's principal activity is to provide for members of the University of Oxford the protection and training of an Academic House.

Objects

TO PROVIDE FOR MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD THE PROTECTION AND TRAINING OF AN ACADEMIC HOUSE, CONDUCTED ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, BUT WITH FULL PROVISION FOR THE LIBERTY OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT MEMBERS.TO DO ALL SUCH OTHER THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO ADVANCING EDUCATION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH IN OXFORD OR ELSEWHERE.

Area of benefit: OXFORD OR ELSEWHERE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds amounted to £84.7m, with free reserves of £6.7m, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet short-term obligations and provide a buffer against revenue shortfalls. The charity reported a net income of £1.1m for the year, supported by investment returns and donations, while total expenditure increased to £15.5m. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Oxford LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Social media 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Michele Acton — 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)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £610k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Don Grainger
• Dr CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
• Dr CLIVE WILSON
• Dr Damian Jenkins
• Dr David Taylor
• Dr EDWARD MANN
• Dr EDWARD MATTHEW HUSBAND
• Dr GEORGE STEPHEN GARNETT
• Dr JAMES MARTIN
• Dr JONATHAN PARKIN
• Dr Jeremy Large
• Dr Julius Grower
• Dr LUET WONG
• Dr Luca Furieri
• Dr Maria Roca Lizarazu
• Dr NICHOLAS PERKINS
• Dr RAFAEL PERERA-SALAZAR
• Dr RUTH BAKER
• Dr Sarah Clifford
• Dr TIMOTHY ROOD
• Dr TOM SANDERS
• Dr Thomas Jacques Aubry
• Gareth Prior
• Michele Louise Acton
• PROF DAVID MARSHALL FRMETS
• PROFESSOR CHISTOPHER JOHN BALLENTINE
• PROFESSOR DAVID DOYLE
• PROFESSOR ELIZABETH EVA LEACH
• PROFESSOR JOSHUA GETZLER · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR PETER MCDONALD
• PROFESSOR PETER MITCHELL
• Prof Shelagh Vainker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Alessandro Abate
• Professor Alexander Mietke
• Professor Antoine Jerusalem
• Professor Asifa Majid
• Professor Bence Kocsis
• Professor Benoit Kornmann
• Professor David Lucas
• Professor Emma Bond

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 THE MANCHESTER ACADEMY AND HARRIS COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

• THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF THE MANCHESTER ACADEMY AND HARRIS COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £7.2m
• HUGHES HALL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 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
• ST EDMUND HALL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £15.5m
• PRINCIPAL FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS OF HERTFORD COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £16.6m
• THE COLLEGE OF ST MARY MAGDALEN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £53.5m

Side by side with its peers

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