SAINT JOHN BAPTIST COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Registered charity 1139733 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q609646 · Wikipedia · also known as ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD

Established in 1555 as a constituent college of the University of Oxford, St John's College fosters excellence in education and research. The College is committed to equal opportunity.

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A PERPETUAL COLLEGE OF LEARNING SCIENCES, SACRED THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND GOOD ARTS - FROM THE LATIN: COLLEGIUM PERPETUUM ERUDITIUS SCIENTIARUM SACRE THEOLOGIE ET PHILOSOPHIE AC BONARUM ARTIUM.

Area of benefit: OXFORDSHIRE

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the College reported an underlying operating deficit of £5.02m for the year ended 31 July 2025, a significant improvement from the £13.71m deficit in the prior year, driven by increased donations and investment income. Per the trustees' report, the College maintains a reserves policy targeting one month's expenditure and holds unrestricted funds of £101.9m, well above the policy target. The auditor confirmed the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith 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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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)

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Dame Sue Black — President (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 31.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/12/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREI STARINETS
• Armin Lak
• Bazat-Tahera Qutbuddin
• Callum Ian Munday
• Caroline Louisa Wallard
• Dr Elizabeth Wonnacott
• Dr Katherine Elizabeth Doornik
• Dr Laura Moody
• Dr Matthew Charles Nicholls
• Dr Sandra Jane Campbell
• Ewa Batyra Dr
• Graham Robert Cormode Professor
• PROF ALASTAIR WRIGHT
• PROFESSOR ALISON ELIZABETH HILLS
• PROFESSOR ANGELA RUSSELL
• PROFESSOR BARRY MURNANE
• PROFESSOR CHARLES NEWTON
• PROFESSOR DARIA MARTIN
• PROFESSOR GEORGY KANTOR · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR GILLIAN ROSE
• PROFESSOR HANNAH SKODA
• PROFESSOR HEATHER BOUMAN
• PROFESSOR IAN THOMAS KLINKE
• PROFESSOR JAN OBLOJ
• PROFESSOR JASON SCHNELL
• PROFESSOR JASON STANYEK
• PROFESSOR Katherine Southwood
• PROFESSOR Katie Anne NATION
• PROFESSOR MARK CANNON
• PROFESSOR NIKOLAJ LUEBECKER
• PROFESSOR NOEL KIMIKO SUGIMURA
• PROFESSOR PATRICK RONALD HAYES
• PROFESSOR PHILIP KUMAR MAINI
• PROFESSOR RICHARD EKINS KC HON
• PROFESSOR ROSALIND HARDING
• PROFESSOR SIMON MYERS
• PROFESSOR STEFAN MARTIN KIEFER
• PROFESSOR STEVE ELSTON
• PROFESSOR THERESA BURT DE PERERA
• PROFESSOR ZOLTAN MOLNAR

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 ST JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.

• ST JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE income £58.7m
• JESUS COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY AND CITY OF OXFORD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FOUNDATION income £13.6m
• THE COLLEGE OF ST MARY MAGDALEN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £53.5m
• ST ANNE'S COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £16.6m
• JESUS COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £31.1m
• ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £9.2m

Side by side with its peers

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