Registered charity · Cambridge
Wesley House, Cambridge
4. Objects 4.1. The object of the Company is the advancement of education and the Christian faith in particular by establishing and maintaining a college, hostel or institution within the precincts of the University of Cambridge which provides:...
- 7 trustees
- Income £8.9m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Religious Activities
- Where
- Throughout England, Kenya, United States, Zimbabwe
- Website
- www.wesley.cam.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Wesley House, Cambridge
- Registered
- 2014
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£8.9m£2.2m
- 2024£979k£1.5m
- 2023£1.0m£1.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£956k£1.1m
- 2021£1.1m£824k
Charitable objects
4. Objects 4.1. The object of the Company is the advancement of education and the Christian faith in particular by establishing and maintaining a college, hostel or institution within the precincts of the University of Cambridge which provides: 4.1.1. training in theology and formation in a Wesleyan tradition for accepted candidates for the ministry and ordained ministers of the Methodist Church worldwide; and 4.1.2. theological training to lay members of the Methodist Church worldwide; and 4.1.3. theological training to others consistently with the values of the Methodist and Wesleyan traditions by means of tuition, academic supervision and mentoring (including by remote means) together with residential facilities in connection with such tuition, supervision and mentoring, where appropriate. 4.2. The Company shall function as a post-graduate college enabling students to have access, as appropriate, to the benefits of University life and tuition, and applicants shall normally be required to hold an undergraduate degree (or equivalent) prior to being granted access to residence and/or tuition in the college, save that the Trustees shall have discretion to permit access to such number and proportion of students who do not already hold an undergraduate degree as they see fit.
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Christine Nelia Elliott Chair since 2019
- David Peniket since 2019
- Dr David Michael Chapman since 2025
- Janet Arthur since 2019
- Professor Nigel David Poole since 2021
- Rev Rose Westwood since 2022
- Rev Stephen Burgess since 2016
Trustees past 6 years
- Christine Nelia Elliott Chair since 2019
- David Peniket since 2019
- Janet Arthur since 2019
- Rev Stephen Burgess since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (1)
- Rev Rose Westwood since 2022
Portfolio (6)
- Christine Nelia Elliott Chair since 2019
- David Peniket since 2019
- Dr David Michael Chapman since 2025
- Janet Arthur since 2019
- Professor Nigel David Poole since 2021
- Rev Stephen Burgess since 2016
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
96.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1158440
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 24 JUL 2014 AS AMENDED ON 06 MAY 2022AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 JUL 2022 as amended on 14 Nov 2022 as amended on 22 May 2025
- Companies House
- Company number 09147032 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01223765850 · aio22@cam.ac.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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