RIDLEY HALL, CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1157004 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RIDLEY HALL CAMBRIDGE

The formation and training of men and women for ordained ministry in the Church of England and the Anglican Communion, together with the training of youth workers and pioneer ministers and the provision of continuing education for clergy and laity

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £137,049 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £2,229,522 and total expenditure of £2,092,473. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £4,523,415, which is above the stated policy target of approximately £1m, indicating a strong financial position with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09011968

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ridley Hall (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Spelman — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Rob McDonald — Academic Dean (source)
• Fiona Green — Vice-Principal (source)
• Guoliang Zhang — Director of Finance (source)
• Matt Cooper — Director of Communications (source)
• Dave Borlase — Director of Engagement (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SHEARD, Mark Robert, Mr. — director, appointed 24/09/2025on trustee list
• WOOLLEY, Paul Thomas — director, appointed 03/07/2025on trustee list
• SMITH, Mark Stephen, Dr — director, appointed 02/12/2024on trustee list
• SELLIN, Debbie, Rt Revd — director, appointed 09/01/2023on trustee list
• POPE, Susan Elizabeth — director, appointed 22/12/2022on trustee list
• ZAHL, Simeon Mclean, Professor — director, appointed 14/06/2022on trustee list
• ROBERTSHAW, Kina Perrira Njamba — director, appointed 13/10/2021on trustee list
• BIGG, Michael David, The Reverend — director, appointed 21/06/2021on trustee list
• PRESLAND, Andrew Roy, Canon — director, appointed 03/01/2020on trustee list
• DYBALL, Rebecca, Revd — director, appointed 09/10/2018on trustee list
• HOLMES, Kevin John — director, appointed 30/05/2018on trustee list
• ZHANG, Guoliang — secretary, appointed 01/10/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (40% 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: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Roy Presland · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr Mark Smith
• Joseph Diwakar
• KEVIN JOHN HOLMES
• Kina Perrira Njamba Robertshaw
• MARK ROBERT SHEARD · trustee of 4 other charities
• Paul Thomas Woolley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Simeon Zahl
• RT REVD Debbie Sellin
• Rev Michael Bigg
• Reverend Canon Rebecca Mary Dyball
• SUSAN POPE

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST HILD COLLEGE.

• ST HILD COLLEGE income £1.1m
• ST MELLITUS COLLEGE TRUST income £4.5m
• CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION CIO income £399k
• CAMBRIDGE VINEYARD CHURCH income £132k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY SEPULCHRE CAMBRIDGE income £1.3m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF REDLAND, BRISTOL income £455k

Side by side with its peers

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