The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of the University Church of ST Mary the Virgin

Registered charity 1130491 Registered since 2009

Operates: Oxfordshire

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3.2y median 2y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (18)

Portfolio (8)

4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Religious Activities 25Education/training 3Arts/culture/heritage/science 2Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 5Retail and trade 4Arts and leisure 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£760k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.5 in 2020

16 from 7 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Related organisations

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websiteuniversity-church.ox.ac.uk
Emailadmin@universitychurch.ox.ac.uk
Phone01865279110
AddressST. MARYS CHURCH, HIGH STREET, OXFORD, OX1 4BJ

Finances

£759,579 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£350,952£422,850
2021£968,957£747,041
2022£761,530£1,178,323
2023£725,940£720,592
2024£759,579£743,179

What it does

What

Religious Activities

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Services

Charitable objects

Promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church.

Governing document: PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL POWERS MEASURE (1956) AS AMENDED AND CHURCH REPRESENTATION RULES

Trustees (26)

26trustees
75median age
3aged 70+

Connected charities (6)

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