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Registered charity · Oxford

The Warden and Scholars of the House OR College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford

  • 53 trustees
  • Income £20m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th 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
Where
Oxfordshire
Website
www.merton.ox.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£20m£24m
  • 2024£21m£22m
  • 2023£19m£19m
Earlier years
  • 2022£15m£19m
  • 2021£14m£17m
Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, RELIGION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH AND TO BE A COLLEGE IN OXFORD OR ELSEWHERE

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.

6.8y median 6.5y
average tenure
23y
longest tenure
5.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (46)

Portfolio (7)

6
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 53Arts/culture/heritage/science 4Animals 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 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 2Property 2Arts and leisure 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£20.4m 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.

2.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 4.9 in 2021

153 from 132 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
1139022
Status
Registered
Governing document
FOUNDED IN 1264 WITH STATUTES DATED 30 APRIL 1926 LAST AMENDED MARCH 2008AS AMENDED ON 15 JUL 2015 08 NOV 2022AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 08 NOV 2022
Contact on the register
01865276310 · charles.alexander@merton.ox.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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