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Registered charity · Oxford

Lincoln College Oxford

Lincoln College Oxford is a registered charity (number 1139261) based in Oxford, governed by 33 trustees and chaired by Nigel Clifford since 2024. Latest income £15m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Lincoln College, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints in the University of Oxford, The Warden Or Rector and Scholars of the College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln, in the University of Oxford (Charity Commission)

  • 33 trustees
  • Income £15m (2025)
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About

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

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£15m£18m
  • 2024£13m£15m
  • 2023£15m£16m
Earlier years
  • 2022£16m£16m
  • 2021£22m£13m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, STUDY AND RESEARCH IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROVISION, SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF A COLLEGE IN OXFORD.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION INCLUDING THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT OF A CHAPEL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.[UNEM COLLEGIUM AD EXALTIONEM FIDEI ORTHODOXAE ET PROFECTUM SANAE DOCTRINE]

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.

6.6y median 6y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure
6.2y
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 33The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 3Amateur Sport 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Arts and leisure 1Health and social care 1Retail and trade 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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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£15.4m 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.

3.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.0 in 2021

140 from 135 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
1139261
Status
Registered
Governing document
FOUNDATION DOCUMENT FROM 1427, THE BISHOPS STATUTES OF 1478 AND STATUTES LAST AMENDED IN 2003
Contact on the register
01865279800
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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