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Registered charity · Cambridgeshire

ST John's College Cambridge

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £59m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Cambridgeshire
Website
www.joh.cam.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
ST John's College Cambridge
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£59m£62m
  • 2024£55m£57m
  • 2023£50m£52m
Earlier years
  • 2022£37m£48m
  • 2021£33m£45m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, RELIGION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE AND THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR, AND THE CONDUCT OF DIVINE SERVICE WITHIN THE COLLEGE.

Grants received

1 grant · £40,000 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £40,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £40,0002010-10-12
Board analysis

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.

4y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure
5.9y
average years in governance
1
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 13Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Recreation 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.

Other services 2Finance 1Professional services 1

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£58.7m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

3.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 8.8 in 2021

497 from 461 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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1137428
Status
Registered
Governing document
STATUTORY INSTRUMENT LETTERS PATENT OF 7 AUGUST 1509 AND STATUTES LAST AMENDED 2026
Companies House
Company number RC000601 · Active
Contact on the register
01223338600 · porters@joh.cam.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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