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 · Wikidata: Q745967 · Wikipedia · also known as CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD

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

Objects

(A)THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION, EDUCATION AND LEARNING, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(I)THE PROVISION, SUPPORT, CONDUCT AND MAINTENANCE OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL AS THE CATHEDRAL OF THE DIOCESE OF OXFORD, TOGETHER WITH ITS CHOIR;(II)THE PROVISION, SUPPORT, CONDUCT AND MAINTENANCE OF CHRIST CHURCH AS A COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD;(III)THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH IN ANY BRANCH OF LEARNING;AND IN SO FAR AS ITS NOT INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE OBJECTS SET OUT IN (A) ABOVE(B)THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS, CULTURE, HERITAGE AND SCIENCE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(I)THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION OF COLLECTIONS OF ARTICLES OF HISTORICAL, AESTHETIC OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST;(II)THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION OF THE CATHEDRAL AND ITS APPURTENANCES INCLUDING THE CHAPTER HOUSE; AND(III)THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION OF THE OTHER BUILDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND ITS CURTILAGE INCLUDING THE MEADOW.

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.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

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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.

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
• 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
• 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)

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2025 (received 02/06/2026, 2 days after the 31/05/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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)

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 3.7%) (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 Madhusudhan Srinivasan
• Dr Matthias Holweg
• Dr Tamar Koplatadze
• Dr William Peter Ghosh
• Dr YARIN GAL
• Edward Wilfrid Stephenson MA · trustee of 1 other charity
• 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 RICHARD WADE-MARTINS
• PROFESSOR SAM HOWISON
• PROFESSOR SARAH LOUISE ROWLAND-JONES

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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