THE HOUSE OF THE BLESSED MARY THE VIRGIN IN OXFORD, COMMONLY CALLED ORIEL COLLEGE, OF THE FOUNDATION OF EDWARD THE SECOND OF FAMOUS MEMORY SOMETIME KING OF ENGLAND

Registered charity 1141976 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ORIEL COLLEGE, THE PROVOST AND SCHOLARS OF THE HOUSE OF THE BLESSED MARY THE VIRGIN IN OXFORD COMMONLY CALLED ORIEL COLLEGE OF THE FOUNDATION OF EDWARD THE SECOND

Promotion of undergraduate education within the University of Oxford and to promote research and advanced study.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the College reported a net income of £8.9m for the year ended 31 July 2025, driven by significant unrealised gains on investments and property. The College maintains substantial reserves, including £119.7m in endowment and restricted funds, and confirms it has sufficient liquidity to operate for at least the next twelve months on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lord Mendoza — Provost (source)
• Oliver Pooley — Vice Provost (source)
• Margaret Jones — Treasurer (source)
• Marco Zhang — Director of Development (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 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW BOOTHROYD
• ANNETTE VOLFING
• BRUNO CURRIE
• CHRISTOPHER BOWDLER
• DAVID HODGSON
• Dmitry Ghilyarov
• Dr Andrew Wells
• Dr Bernadette Young
• Dr Cecile Bishop
• Dr David Maw
• Dr Dominic Alonzi
• Dr Julien Devriendt
• Dr Justin Coon
• Dr Luca Castagnoli
• Dr MUNGO WILSON
• Dr Nicholas Gaskill
• Dr OLIVER POOLEY
• Dr Olivia Elder
• Dr PAUL YOWELL
• Dr Patrick Farrell
• Dr Sumana Sanyal
• Dr Teresa Bejan
• Dr Thomas Luke Johnson
• Dr Victor Acedo-Mattellan
• GONZALO RODRIGUEZ-PEREYRA
• IAN HORROCKS
• JAMES FRANK SPARKS
• JOHN ARMOUR
• JOHN HUBER
• JULIA MANNHERZ
• JULIANE KERKHECKER
• KATHRYN MURPHY
• LARS FUGGER
• LYNNE COX
• Marco Zhang
• Margaret Jones Mrs
• Mark Wynn
• Neil Mendoza · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROF LYNDAL ROPER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Prof MICHAEL PETER DEVEREUX

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 COLLEGE OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD OF THE FOUNDATION OF SIR THOMAS POPE.

• THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD OF THE FOUNDATION OF SIR THOMAS POPE income £13.5m
• 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
• THE RECTOR AND SCHOLARS OF EXETER COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £14.6m
• THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE LADY MARGARET IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £16.7m
• THE MASTER AND SCHOLARS OF BALLIOL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £18.8m

Side by side with its peers

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