REGENT'S PARK COLLEGE

Registered charity 1181801 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7308069 · Wikipedia

THE COLLEGE AIMS TO PROVIDE MEN AND WOMEN WITH HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES AT UNDERGRADUATE, GRADUATE AND RESEARCH LEVEL AS PART OF A WORLD-CLASS UNIVERSITY, AND IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRISTIAN PASTORAL CARE. IT PROVIDES SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE STUDY OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGION, INCLUDING PREPARATION FOR ORDAINED CHRISTIAN MINISTRY.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:3.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF A PERMANENT PRIVATE HALL LICENSED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD OR A COLLEGE OR SOCIETY WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD OR ELSEWHERE, IN WHICH MEN AND WOMEN MAY:3.1.1 ENGAGE IN STUDY (INCLUDING FOR DEGREES, DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES OF THE UNIVERSITY);3.1.2 STUDY THEOLOGY AND PREPARE FOR ORDAINED CHRISTIAN MINISTRY, IN PARTICULAR AMONGST BAPTIST CHURCHES; AND3.1.3 ENGAGE IN RESEARCH.THE COLLEGE, PERMANENT PRIVATE HALL OR SOCIETY SHALL PROVIDE ALL ITS STUDENTS WITH HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF A COMMUNITY WHICH OFFERS OPPORTUNITIES TO GROW IN CHRISTIAN FAITH AND SERVICE, AND TO DEVELOP CHRISTIAN THINKING ABOUT ACADEMIC SUBJECTS AND VOCATIONS IN SOCIETY.3.2 TO ADVANCE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND EDUCATION ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING LIFE-LONG CHRISTIAN LEARNING AMONGST MEMBERS OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND IN PARTICULAR AMONG MEMBERS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES.

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 charity reported a deficit in unrestricted funds of £690,000 before investment gains, resulting in free reserves of £875,000 at year-end. This level of reserves is below the trustees' stated policy target of at least £2 million. The accounts state that the charity is prepared on a going concern basis 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 Wenn Townsend. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 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 ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dominic Anthony John Freda
• Dr ANTHONY JOHN CLARKE
• Dr Anthony William Harris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Charles Philip Read
• Dr Christine Elizabeth Joynes
• Dr Kang-San Tan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Katherine Ann Kirkpatrick
• Jonathan Austin Lafferty
• Kevin Jeffrey Fitzgerald
• REV CAROL ANN MURRAY
• Rev Andrew John Bevan
• Rev Andrew John Openshaw · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Elizabeth Jane Allison-Glenny
• Rev Jonathan Mark Keyworth · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Ruth Elizabeth Moriarty
• Rev STEPHEN LEONARD COPSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• STEPHEN JAMES COWBURN
• Sir Malcolm David Evans · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Mark Pottle · trustee of 1 other charity
• William David Tomsett

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, DURHAM.

• ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, DURHAM income £8.2m
• ST MARY REDCLIFFE WITH TEMPLE EDUCATIONAL CHARITY income £165k
• THE REGENT (CHRISTCHURCH) LIMITED income £2.0m
• UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £4.6m
• ST MARY'S COLLEGE TRUST income £41k
• THE CORPORATION OF ST LAWRENCE COLLEGE income £12.0m

Side by side with its peers

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