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Registered charity (CIO) · Oxford

Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £523k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Oxfordshire
Website
www.whtrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£523k£779k
  • 2024£553k£716k
  • 2023£1.7m£812k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£617k
  • 2021£699k£491k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE IN RELATION TO GOVERNMENT, ECONOMICS, POLITICS, HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW, ADMINISTRATION, THE ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING BY, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:AWARDING TO PERSONS SCHOLARSHIPS, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES OR GRANTS TENABLE AT ANY UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OR INSTITUTION OF HIGHER OR FURTHER EDUCATION; FACILITATING VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS TO ADDRESS MAJOR THEMES IN THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES AT UNIVERSITIES AND MAKING LECTURES BY THESE LEADING PRACTITIONERS AND SCHOLARS AVAILABLE TO A WORLD-WIDE AUDIENCE; ANDCOMMISSIONING AND/OR CARRYING OUT RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS.

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 trustees on the board

5y median 2y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

0
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 6Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 6

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£523k 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.

1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 4.9 in 2021

4 from 4 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
1158918
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 20 Oct 2014
Contact on the register
01865 411514 · info@whtrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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