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Registered charity · Oxford

Nuffield College in the University of Oxford

  • 38 trustees
  • Income £14m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Oxfordshire
Website
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14m£17m
  • 2024£14m£12m
  • 2023£14m£17m
Earlier years
  • 2022£46m£49m
  • 2021£12m£13m
Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE FOR MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE MEMBERS OF OUR UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD A COLLEGE FOR POST-GRADUATE WORK ESPECIALLY IN CONNECTION WITH THE STUDY BY CO-OPERATION BETWEEN ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC PERSONS OF SOCIAL (INCLUDING ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL) PROBLEMS AND ALSO FOR ANY OTHER POST-GRADUATE RESEARCH OR WORK.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

7.4y median 7.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure
6.8y
average years in governance
3
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 38The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Health and social care 2Professional services 2Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£14.0m latest income
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.

3.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 5.1 in 2021

141 from 134 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
1137506
Status
Registered
Governing document
CHARTER OF 18 APRIL 1958 AND STATUTES LAST AMENDED IN 2003
Contact on the register
01865278500 · bursary@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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