THE MASTER AND SCHOLARS OF BALLIOL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Registered charity 1144032 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BALLIOL COLLEGE

In pursuit of our charitable objects to advance education, religion, learning and research within the context of the University of Oxford, we admit, teach, and mentor undergraduate and graduate students on a wide variety of degree courses, facilitate research and scholarship within the academic membership of the College, and cater for an international community of learning, and maintain a chapel.

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Latest income

£18.8m

Latest spending

£20.8m

Registered

2011

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the College had a net expenditure before gains of £1.6m for the year ended 31 July 2025, driven by a 10% increase in costs despite a 3% decrease in income. Free reserves increased to £20m, and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the College's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £2.2m - £3.3m (held: £20.0m)

“reserves target in 2024/2025 of £2.2-3.3m”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Payments to trustees: Trustees who are employees receive remuneration for their work as employees. Key management remuneration was £633k.

“Trustees that are also employees of the College receive remuneration for their work as employees of the College which is set based on the advice of the College’s Remuneration Committee.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Trustee loan and housing schemes

“At the beginning of the year a trustee had a loan outstanding from the College of £154k and three trustees had properties purchased under the Joint Equity Scheme, totalling £900k. One trustee joined the Joint Equity Scheme during the year, with College equity of £150k.” — page 46

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Balliol College Developments Limited

“The College has one wholly owned non-charitable subsidiary, Balliol College Developments Limited, which is a company providing building contractor, conference and other event services on College premises.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Trading subsidiary: BALLIOL COLLEGE DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED Companies House 04495361

BALLIOL COLLEGE DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

Turnover: £1.9m
Profit before tax: £178k
Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £178k
510,486

“Subsequent to the year end, the directors agreed to make a gift aid donation of the whole of the profit for the year before taxation to its parent, Balliol College, Oxford, a registered charity.”

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Professor Seamus Perry — Master (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)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £2.2m. 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)

Total income

£19.2m

Total spending

£20.8m

Cost of raising funds

£821k

Reserves (reported)

£20.0m

Employees

164

Reported reserves equal ~11.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (20/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (23/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Dr SEAMUS PERRYchair · trustee of 2 other charities
AMANDA TILLEY
DR DOMINIC CHRISTOPHER O'BRIEN MA PHD
DR MATTHEW ROBINSON MA DPHIL
DR ROSALIND THOMAS BA MA PHD
DR SANDRA PAOLI MA PHD
DR SEBASTIAN MORDECAI SHIMELD BSC MA PHD
DR SOPHIE MARNETTE MA PHD
DR WILLIAM BARFORD BSC MA PHD
Dr ADAM EDWARD PHILIP CAULTON
Dr ADRIAN KELLY
Dr ARMIN JOSEF HERMANN REICHOLD
Dr Alexander Bown
Dr Alexander Kaiserman
Dr CORALIA CARTIS
Dr DANIEL BUTT
Dr DEREK MOULTON
Dr David Enoch
Dr Faisal Devji
Dr GRANT IAN LAMOND
Dr Hasan Dindjer
Dr JAMES FORDER MA DPHIL
Dr JIN-CHONG TAN
Dr JOHN-PAUL GHOBRIAL
Dr James Kwan
Dr Jason Lotay
Dr Kate Crosby
Dr Katrina Davis
Dr LISA JANE WALKER
Dr MARTIN HERBERT CONWAY · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr Matthew Langton
Dr Mike Giles
Dr NICOLA ZOE TROTT
Dr SIMON ANDREW SKINNER
Dr SUDHIR KUMAR HAZAREESINGH
Dr Vincent Cheval
HELEN GITTOS · trustee of 1 other charity
Ian Goldin
Jim Mallinson
John Chu · 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	£18.8m	£20.8m
31/07/2024	£19.4m	£18.9m
31/07/2023	£17.3m	£18.7m
31/07/2022	£14.3m	£18.1m
31/07/2021	£11.8m	£14.3m

Common questions

Is THE MASTER AND SCHOLARS OF BALLIOL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the College had a net expenditure before gains of £1.6m for the year ended 31 July 2025, driven by a 10% increase in costs despite a 3% decrease in income. Free reserves increased to £20m, and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the College's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe UK LLP.

Who funds THE MASTER AND SCHOLARS OF BALLIOL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE MASTER AND SCHOLARS OF BALLIOL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD as a grant recipient include THE CPF TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
THE CPF TRUST	FY2022	£2k
THE CPF TRUST	FY2023	£1k
THE CPF TRUST	FY2024	£1k

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
JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£10k
THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£1.0m
THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£1.0m
THE STEVENSON FAMILY'S CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£303k
THE TOLKIEN TRUST	1	£200k
THE SAVOY EDUCATIONAL TRUST	1	£63k
THE HELEN ROLL CHARITY	1	£37k
LOB'S CHARITY	1	£35k

Charities like this

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.

THE RECTOR AND SCHOLARS OF EXETER COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £14.6m
THE WARDEN AND SCHOLARS OF THE HOUSE OR COLLEGE OF SCHOLARS OF MERTON IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £20.4m
THE COLLEGE OF ST MARY MAGDALEN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £53.5m
JESUS COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY AND CITY OF OXFORD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FOUNDATION income £13.6m
THE MASTER AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE GREAT HALL OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMONLY CALLED UNIVERSITY COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £23.4m
THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD income £19.9m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE MASTER AND SCHOLARS OF BALLIOL COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD	£18.8m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE RECTOR AND SCHOLARS OF EXETER COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FY2025	£14.6m	—	—	within	30.4%	no doubt
THE WARDEN AND SCHOLARS OF THE HOUSE OR COLLEGE OF SCHOLARS OF MERTON IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FY2025	£20.4m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE COLLEGE OF ST MARY MAGDALEN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FY2025	£53.5m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
JESUS COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY AND CITY OF OXFORD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FOUNDATION FY2025	£13.6m	—	—	above	—	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 - £70,000	4	below	—	no doubt

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