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Registered charity · Oxford

The English Province of the Order of Preachers

The English Province of the Order of Preachers is a registered charity (number 231192) based in Oxford, governed by 5 trustees and chaired by Rev Nicholas Michael Crowe OP since 2023. Latest income £7.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as The Dominicans, The Dominican Council (Charity Commission)

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £7.6m (2025)
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Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: The Dominican Council.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Religious Activities
Where
Camden, Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Leicester City and more
Website
english.op.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.6m£4.2m
  • 2024£4.3m£4.5m
  • 2023£4.3m£4.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.4m£4.0m
  • 2021£5.6m£3.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION AND THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF SCHOOLS CHURCHES AND PRIORIES FOR THESE PURPOSE AND THE UPKEEP OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ORDER OF PREACHERS.

Grants received

2 grants · £20,000 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

4 trustees on the board

3.2y median 2.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (2)

1
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 4Religious Activities 3Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 1Tech and media 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£7.6m latest income
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.

19.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 11.8 in 2021

23 from 10 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
231192
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 4 JUNE 1930 AND DEED OF PARTIAL REVOCATION DATED 1945
Contact on the register
01865288231 · provincial.bursar@english.op.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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