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Registered charity · Cambridge

Girton College

  • 18 trustees
  • Income £17m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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, Accommodation/housing, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 2 more
Where
Cambridgeshire
Website
www.girton.cam.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Girton College Cambridge
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£17m£22m
  • 2024£17m£19m
  • 2023£13m£21m
Earlier years
  • 2022£12m£18m
  • 2021£12m£15m
Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, RELIGION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH AND IN PARTICULAR THE PREPARATION OF PERSONS FOR TAKING EXAMINATIONS AND PROCEEDING TO THE DEGREES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

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.

2.2y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.9y
average years in governance
5
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 18Education/training 18Religious Activities 18

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 3Education 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£17.3m 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.

15.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 21.5 in 2021

213 from 183 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
1137541
Status
Registered
Governing document
CHARTER GRANTED 21 AUGUST 1923 AND SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 1 OCTOBER 1954 AS AMENDED 28 JULY 1971 AND STATUTES LAST AMENDED 11 FEBRUARY 2009
Companies House
Company number RC000196 · Active
Contact on the register
01223338999 · bursar@girton.cam.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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