OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1151621 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OCF, OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 2013

THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA CURRENTLY KNOWN AS THE COUNTY OF OXFORDSHIRE AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD.

Objects

1. THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA CURRENTLY KNOWN AS THE COUNTY OF OXFORDSHIRE AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS.2. OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE FOUNDATION BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · 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

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £492,872 at year-end, which the Trustees confirmed represented 11 months of budgeted expenditure, satisfying their policy requirement of holding a minimum of six months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity reported a net decrease in funds of £1,148,588 for the year, primarily due to increased grant disbursements from restricted funds, but maintains a strong net asset position of £8,393,707 supported by significant endowment reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend. Discloses 6 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
• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Zoe Sprigings — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Ian Busby — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Kate Parrinder — Deputy CEO (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Beard Charitable Foundation — “Oxford-based construction company Beard launched a charitable foundation to support staff community initiatives and construction education p…” (source page)
• David and Claudia Harding Foundation — “David Harding is founder of Winton Capital Management, now one of the world’s largest hedge fund companies. Through their private foundation…” (source page)
• Didcot First — “The Didcot Powerhouse Fund, set up by Didcot First through an Advisory Group to tackle inequality and deprivation within the Didcot Garden T…” (source page)
• Meech International — “Headquartered in Witney, specialist design and manufacturing firm Meech International established a named fund to commemorate their 100-year…” (source page)
• Midcounties Cooperative — “The Midcounties Co-operative uses local community foundations in order to administer their community grant-making. Members of the Co-operati…” (source page)
• RWK Goodman — “Partners at local law firm RWK Goodman make an annual donation to an endowment fund with OCF. This enables them to make grants from the fund…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/10/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Christopher Busbychair
• Eleanor Mary Burnett
• Madeleine Kate Maloney Gazzard
• Philip Luke Fabian French
• Timothy Martin Whitney

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £583k
• THE OXFORDSHIRE BRANCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND income £905k
• CHESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £2.3m
• COMMUNITY FIRST OXFORDSHIRE income £576k
• COUNTY IN THE COMMUNITY income £499k
• OXFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST (2016) income £401k

Side by side with its peers

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