THE OXFORD GROUP

Registered charity 226334 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INITIATIVES OF CHANGE-UK

Our programmes are varied but include initiatives to develop sustainable communities; making films about conflict resolution; working to bring trust and integrity into the business and financial sectors; helping young people to find a sense of vocation.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE MEANS AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE OXFORD GROUP MOVEMENT FOUNDED IN OR ABOUT THE YEAR 1921 BY FRANK NATHAN DANIEL BUCHMAN

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £286,567 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by gains on property sales and investments despite an operating deficit. The trustees confirm the charity is prepared on a going concern basis, citing adequate unrestricted reserves within designated funds and expendable endowment funds to meet liabilities as they fall due.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goodman Jones LLP. Discloses 4 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £2.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~65.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 43.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Boobbyer
• David Stokes
• Gerald Doherty
• Joi McAtee
• Linda Raabe-Marjot · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL SMITH
• Michael Kane
• Professor Brandon Edmund Hamber
• Timothy John Bissett · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OXFORD ROUND TABLE CHARITABLE TRUST.

• OXFORD ROUND TABLE CHARITABLE TRUST income £173k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH DORE income £403k
• FOCUS INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £126k
• OXFORD KILBURN YOUTH TRUST income £149k
• OXFORD LIEDER income £710k
• THE FRIENDS OF ST EBBE'S TRUST income £189k

Side by side with its peers

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