THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF MANSFIELD COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Registered charity 1143860 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q2487309 · Wikipedia · also known as MANSFIELD COLLEGE

A constituent college of the University of Oxford providing higher education to undergraduate and graduate students.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE LEARNING, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES.B) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR MEN AND WOMEN WHO SHALL BE MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY IN WHICH THEY MAY WORK FOR DEGREES, DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES OF THE UNIVERSITY AND WHERE MEN AND WOMEN MAY ENGAGE IN ADVANCED AND OTHER STUDY AND THE CONDUCT AND PUBLICATION OF RESEARCH IN OXFORD.C) TO PROMOTE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND IN PARTICULAR THE CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS ORIGINATING IN THE CONTINENTAL REFORMATION AND ENGLISH DISSENT; AND TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE STUDY OF THEOLOGY AND TRAINING FOR THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY, HAVING REGARD ESPECIALLY TO THE MINISTRIES OF THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE CHURCHES OF THE CONGREGATIONAL FEDERATION.

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 net assets increased to £79.6m, with unrestricted general funds improving from a negative balance to a positive £1.3m. The charity maintains a reserves policy target of increasing free reserves to £3m, noting that the current position is below this aim. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate 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 Gravita Audit Oxford LLP. Discloses 5 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 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 ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Mountfieldchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Clement Irwin Brohier · trustee of 1 other charity
• DR HELEN LACEY PHD
• DR KATHERINE MORRIS DPHIL
• Dr ANDREW GOSLER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Amber Murrey-Ndewa
• Dr Christopher Pulte
• Dr Christopher Salamone
• Dr Inbar Levy
• Elisabeth Virginia Bechtold
• Elizabeth Drummond
• James Colman
• Lyndsey Victoria Jenkins
• PROFESSOR ALISON SALVESEN DPHIL
• PROFESSOR CHRIS MARTIN DPHIL
• PROFESSOR DEREK MCCORMACK DPHIL
• PROFESSOR HELEN MARGETTS DPHIL
• PROFESSOR JAMES MARROW D PHIL
• PROFESSOR JASON SMITH
• PROFESSOR JOCELYN BELL-BURNELL
• PROFESSOR MARINA GALANO D PHIL
• PROFESSOR MICHELE MENDELSSOHN DPHIL
• PROFESSOR PAUL LODGE DPHIL
• PROFESSOR ROSALIND BALLASTER DPHIL
• PROFESSOR STEPHEN BLUNDELL DPHIL
• PROFESSOR STEVE BILLER
• Professor Andrew Allan Higgins
• Professor Basak Cali
• Professor Carl Frey
• Professor Catherine Mary Elizabeth O'Regan · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor David Leopold
• Professor Ian Griffiths
• Professor JON CHAPMAN
• Professor Jennifer Ruth Strawbridge
• Professor Mark McInroy
• Professor Matthew David Cook
• Professor Mehmet Sinan Acikgoz
• Professor Peter Keevash
• Professor Rachel Murray
• Professor Sara Bernardini

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF THE MANCHESTER ACADEMY AND HARRIS COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

• THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF THE MANCHESTER ACADEMY AND HARRIS COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £7.2m
• THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE LADY MARGARET IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £16.7m
• THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS OF SOMERVILLE COLLEGE income £20.0m
• PRINCIPAL FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS OF HERTFORD COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £16.6m
• WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD income £20.3m
• NUFFIELD COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £14.0m

Side by side with its peers

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