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THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE LADY MARGARET IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Registered charity 1142759 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LADY MARGARET HALL, LMH

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Latest income
£16.7m
Latest spending
£16.0m
Registered
2011
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the College broke even in terms of income and expenditure, meeting all loan repayments and continuing to restore free reserves. The College covers an operating deficit by drawing on donations, endowment funds, and restricted funds, resulting in a net movement in funds of £7.040m and total funds of £92.702m at year-end.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Teaching, research and residential (58% of income)
“Total Teaching, Research and Residential 10,943”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: sufficient free reserves to enable it to meet its short-term financial obligations in the event of an unexpected revenue shortfall and to allow the College to be managed efficiently and to provide a buffer that would ensure uninterrupted services (held: £30.9m)
“The College’s reserves policy is to maintain sufficient free reserves to enable it to meet its short-term financial obligations in the event of an unexpected revenue shortfall and to allow the College to be managed efficiently and to provide a buffer that would ensure uninterrupted services.” — page 15
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Payments to trustees: Trustees who are employees receive salaries for their work as employees. Total remuneration and benefits shown is £2,143k. No trustee receives any remuneration for acting as a trustee.
“No trustee receives any remuneration for acting as a trustee. However, those trustees who are also employees of the college receive salaries for their work as employees.” — page 37
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: LMH Hospitality Services Limited, Lady Margaret Hall Trading Limited, Lady Margaret Hall Properties Limited
“The College also has three wholly owned non-charitable subsidiaries: LMH Hospitality Services Limited, Lady Margaret Hall Properties Limited and Lady Margaret Hall Trading Limited.” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Total income
£19.0m
Total spending
£16.0m
Cost of raising funds
£1.6m
Reserves (reported)
£103k
Employees
205

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£16.7m£16.0m
31/07/2024£15.9m£12.3m
31/07/2023£15.9m£13.2m
31/07/2022£11.6m£14.5m
31/07/2021£10.2m£11.0m

Common questions

Is THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE LADY MARGARET IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the College broke even in terms of income and expenditure, meeting all loan repayments and continuing to restore free reserves. The College covers an operating deficit by drawing on donations, endowment funds, and restricted funds, resulting in a net movement in funds of £7.040m and total funds of £92.702m at year-end. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Gravita Audit Oxford LLP.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST2£10k
THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST1£1.0m
THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST1£1.0m
THE STEVENSON FAMILY'S CHARITABLE TRUST1£303k
THE TOLKIEN TRUST1£200k
THE SAVOY EDUCATIONAL TRUST1£63k
LOB'S CHARITY1£35k
The Marks Family Charitable Trust1£20k

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE LADY MARGARET IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD£16.7m——unclear—no doubt
THE RECTOR AND SCHOLARS OF EXETER COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FY2025£14.6m——within30.4%no doubt
THE COLLEGE OF ST MARY MAGDALEN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FY2025£53.5m——unclear—no doubt
THE MASTER AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE GREAT HALL OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMONLY CALLED UNIVERSITY COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FY2025£23.4m£60,001 - £70,0004below—no doubt
THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF SOMERVILLE COLLEGE FY2025£20.0m£155,000-£155,9990below—no doubt
THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF ST HUGH'S COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FY2025£15.3m——unclear—no doubt

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