THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN OXFORD OF THE FOUNDATION OF KING HENRY VIII

Registered charity 1143423 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AND THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN OXFORD

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£50.0m

Latest spending

£53.3m

Registered

2011

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided text is limited to the independent auditor's report and does not contain financial statements or trustee narratives. Consequently, no facts regarding financial health, reserves, or operational performance are available for analysis.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

The Very Revd Professor Sarah Foot — Dean (source)
The Revd Canon Peter Moger — Sub Dean (source)
The Venerable Jonathan Chaffey — Archdeacon of Oxford (source)
Canon Professor Carol Harrison — Canon (source)
The Revd Canon Professor Andrew Davison — Canon (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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (13,820 followers) · instagram (24K followers)

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

Total income

£52.0m

Total spending

£53.3m

Cost of raising funds

£10.8m

Reserves (reported)

£0

Employees

455

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

The Very Revd Professor Sarah Rosamund Irvine Footchair · trustee of 3 other charities
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ALEXANDER KUO
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AXEL KUHN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DOMINIC PAUL MORAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR EDWARD GEOFFREY WOLFE KEENE
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR EDWIN JOHN FLETCHER SIMPSON
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GERALDINE A JOHNSON
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IAN WATSON
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOSEPH SCHEAR
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR KEVIN McGERTY
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LAURENCE BRASSART
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MARK JULIAN EDWARDS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MISHTOONI CARYS ANNE BOSE
Anna Nickerson
Associate Professor ALEXANDER VASUDEVAN
Associate Professor Andrea Chiavari
Associate Professor Ciara Kennefick
Associate Professor Natoua Romuald Meango
CANON PROFESSOR CAROL HARRISON
Catherine Jane Gigou
Daniel Jolowicz
Disa Sauter
Dr ANNA JANE CLARK
Dr Jose Gabriel Rinaldi Simons
Dr KATHERINE LEBOW
Dr Madhusudhan Srinivasan
Dr Matthias Holweg
Dr Tamar Koplatadze
Dr William Peter Ghosh
Dr YARIN GAL
Edward Wilfrid Stephenson MA · trustee of 1 other charity
Fabian Pregel
LIESL ELDER
Mark Kerrigan
PROFESSOR BRIAN WALTER YOUNG · trustee of 1 other charity
PROFESSOR DIRK AARTS
PROFESSOR GUY RODERICK WILKINSON FRS
PROFESSOR JASON J DAVIS
PROFESSOR JENNIFER YEE
PROFESSOR JONATHAN GUY EVRILL CROSS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/07/2025	£50.0m	£53.3m
31/07/2024	£46.3m	£47.4m
31/07/2023	£39.8m	£43.2m
31/07/2022	£42.4m	£50.7m
31/07/2021	£31.0m	£34.6m

Common questions

Is THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN OXFORD OF THE FOUNDATION OF KING HENRY VIII financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided text is limited to the independent auditor's report and does not contain financial statements or trustee narratives. Consequently, no facts regarding financial health, reserves, or operational performance are available for analysis. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Who funds THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN OXFORD OF THE FOUNDATION OF KING HENRY VIII?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN OXFORD OF THE FOUNDATION OF KING HENRY VIII as a grant recipient include THE MARTIN SMITH FOUNDATION, Friends of the Nations' Libraries, THE OUSELEY CHURCH MUSIC TRUST, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST COOKHAM DEAN.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MARTIN SMITH FOUNDATION	FY2021	£57k
Friends of the Nations' Libraries	FY2024	£4k	Robert Burton’s copy of Michael Scot
THE OUSELEY CHURCH MUSIC TRUST	FY2022	£2k	Grants for musicians
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST COOKHAM DEAN	FY2022	£30	Discretionary Fund

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
LILIAN FRANCES HIND BEQUEST (TRUSTEES OF LADY HIND)	2	£15k
THE EDWARD & CATHERINE WRAY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£40k
COLEFAX CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£23k
THE JOHN AND PAMELA SALTER CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£10k
THE DYERS' COMPANY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£7k
THE RIX-THOMPSON-ROTHENBERG FOUNDATION	1	£6k
GERALD PALMER ELING TRUST COMPANY	1	£5k
MISS W E LAWRENCE 1973 CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	1	£4k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORWICH CATHEDRAL CHOIR ENDOWMENT FUND.

NORWICH CATHEDRAL CHOIR ENDOWMENT FUND income £253k
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF NORWICH income £4.5m
Headington School Oxford Limited income £28.8m
THE CITY CHARITY TRUST income £128k
WEST BERKSHIRE MENCAP income £3.9m
GARFIELD WESTON TRUST FOR WESTMINSTER ABBEY income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN OXFORD OF THE FOUNDATION OF KING HENRY VIII	£50.0m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
NORWICH CATHEDRAL CHOIR ENDOWMENT FUND FY2025	£253k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF NORWICH FY2025	£4.5m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
Headington School Oxford Limited FY2025	£28.8m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CITY CHARITY TRUST FY2025	£128k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
WEST BERKSHIRE MENCAP FY2025	£3.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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