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Registered charity · Oxford

Wadham College

  • 54 trustees
  • Income £24m (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.wadham.ox.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£24m£19m
  • 2024£22m£15m
  • 2023£18m£15m
Earlier years
  • 2022£14m£16m
  • 2021£11m£13m
Charitable objects

TO BE A COLLEGE - AD LAUDEM, GLORIAM, ET HONOREM OMNIPOTENTIS DEI, BONARUM LITERARUM INCREMENTUM, AC COMMUNEM HUJUS REGNI UTILITATEM - TRANSLATED AS: TO THE PRAISE GLORY AND HONOUR OF ALMIGHTY GOD, THE INCREASE OF GOOD LEARNING AND THE COMMON BENEFIT OF THIS REALM.

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.

54 trustees on the board

6.8y median 5y
average tenure
21y
longest tenure
7.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (50)

Portfolio (4)

5
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 54Arts/culture/heritage/science 3Economic/community Development/employment 1General Charitable Purposes 1Recreation 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 2Education 1Other 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£24.1m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

1.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.3 in 2021

165 from 197 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
1139726
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 20 DECEMBER 1612 STATUTES LAST AMENDED 11 FEBRUARY 2009 11 FEB 2009 07 APR 2011 28 APR 2014 15 JUL 2015 16 MAR 2016 21 JUL 2020
Contact on the register
01865 277966 · Finance.Bursar@wadham.ox.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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