WESLEY HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1158440 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Founded in 1921, Wesley House is an academic institution within the Cambridge Theological Federation. Itis an independent charity, founded to be a Christian community of study, prayer and formation in theWesleyan tradition in the university city of Cambridge. Our vision, is to be a globally significant resource for leadership and scholarship in the Wesleyan tradition.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves were £16,781,470, significantly exceeding the trustees' policy target of three months of support costs (£332,594). The charity's financial position was dominated by a one-time lease compensation receipt of £17,887,500, which provided long-term security and allowed for the settlement of transitional costs and loans.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chater Allan LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Revd Dr Jane Leach — Principal (source)
• The Revd Dr Daniel Pratt Morris-Chapman — Senior Tutor (source)
• Dr Richard A. Davis — Senior Tutor and Director of Faith in Public Life (source)
• Dr Medi Volpe — Director of Research (source)
• The Revd Nicola Vidamour — Director of Reflective Pastoral Supervision (source)
• Christine Elliott — Chair of Trustees (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)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~96.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (89% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Nelia Elliottchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Peniket · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr David Michael Chapman · trustee of 3 other charities
• JANET ARTHUR · trustee of 1 other charity
• John William Bridge
• PROFESSOR Nigel David Poole · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Rose Westwood
• Rev Stephen Burgess · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Stuart Andrew Bell

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

Operates in: Kenya · Throughout England · United States · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WESLEY'S CHAPEL AND LEYSIAN MISSION.

• WESLEY'S CHAPEL AND LEYSIAN MISSION income £681k
• CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND TALBOT income £2.2m
• WESTMINSTER COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE income £2.4m
• CHRIST'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FIRST FOUNDED BY KING HENRY VI OF ENGLAND AND AFTER HIS DEATH income £37.3m
• PEMBROKE COLLEGE SETTLEMENT income £702k
• NEW LIFE CHURCH CAMBRIDGE income £114k

Side by side with its peers

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