THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ROWING FOUNDATION

Registered charity 292325 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE

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Objects

IN THIS DECLARATION OF TRUST THE EXPRESSION “THE CHARITABLE OBJECTS” SHALL MEAN THEADVANCEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PERSONS WHO ARE BONA FIDE STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE BY ENSURING THAT DUE ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION TO A HIGH STANDARD OF SUCH STUDENTS AS WELL AS TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND OCCUPATION OF THEIR MINDS AND WITH A VIEW TO FURTHERING THAT OBJECT TO ORGANIZE AND TO PROVIDE (OR TO ASSIST IN THE ORGANIZATION OR PROVISION OF) FACILITIES WHICH WILL ENABLE AND ENCOURAGE SUCH STUDENTS TO ROW SO THAT (WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) THE BEST OARSMEN AND OARSWOMEN FROM AMONG SUCH STUDENTS AS AFORESAID MAY ROW IN ANNUAL RACES AGAINST EACH OTHER; AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH ROWERS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DEEM APPROPRIATE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ROWING FACILITIES.

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.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wandsworth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a significant increase in net assets, rising from £1,181,703 to £1,496,643, driven primarily by investment income of £332,339 against charitable expenditure of £17,449. Unrestricted reserves stood at £1,249,555, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain operations for three to six months of expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Arnold Hill & Co LLP. Discloses 5 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 06/03/2025, 310 days after the 30/04/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Shiptonchair
• Basil Dixon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Chris Le Neve Foster
• Erin Kennedy
• Hannah Roberts
• James Brown
• Joanna Burch · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Searle
• Maria Nowak
• Richard Jackson

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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