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Registered charity · Cambridge

The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £15m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Cambridgeshire
Website
www.newn.cam.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Newnham College Cambridge
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£15m£17m
  • 2024£16m£14m
  • 2023£19m£16m
Earlier years
  • 2022£14m£16m
  • 2021£9.5m£12m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO FURTHER PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING A LIBERAL EDUCATION AND PROMOTING LEARNING AND RESEARCH THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A COLLEGE FOR WOMEN WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. (B) TO DO ALL SUCH OTHER THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO ADVANCING EDUCATION AND LEARNING AMONG WOMEN IN CAMBRIDGE AND ELSEWHERE.

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.

2.8y median 1.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (16)

0
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 16

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£14.9m 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.

52.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 70.9 in 2021

243 from 144 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
1137512
Status
Registered
Governing document
CHARTER GRANTED 12 APRIL 1917 AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER OF 24 APRIL 1958 AS AMENDED 26 JULY 1979 AND 31 JULY 1981 AND STATUTES LAST AMENDED 24 APRIL 1996AS AMENDED ON 11 MAR 2020 as amended on 12 Mar 2025
Companies House
Company number RC000384 · Active
Contact on the register
01223 335700 · bursar@newn.cam.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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