Registered charity · Oxford
Rhodes Trust - Public Purposes Fund
- 16 trustees
- Income £34m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Christopher George OechsliTrustee · since 2020
- Douglas Alexander BeckTrustee · since 2020
- Dr Charlotte Mary Deane MBETrustee · since 2022
- Dr Tariro MakadzangeTrustee · since 2016
- Frederick SwanikerTrustee · since 2022
- Michael Clifford FitzpatrickTrustee · since 2018
- Neeti Bhalla JohnsonTrustee · since 2020
- Peter StamosTrustee · since 2018
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- Professor Catherine Mary Elizabeth O'ReganTrustee · since 2018
- Professor Elleke BoehmerTrustee · since 2016
- Professor Oladapo Oladipo Olakunle AkandeTrustee · since 2020
- Professor SIR John Irving BellTrustee · since 2017
- Robert Andrew SternfelsTrustee · since 2019
- Samuel Andrew BanksTrustee · since 2014
- Swati MylavarapuTrustee · since 2020
Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Robert Steven Harrison.
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 5 other charities:
- The Oxford Health Alliance Vision 2020 · 1 shared trustee
- Aurora Education Foundation (UK) · 1 shared trustee
- SA Constitutional Court Trust UK · 1 shared trustee
- The Principal and Fellows of Mansfield College in the University of Oxford · 1 shared trustee
- The College of ALL Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Education/training
- Where
- Oxfordshire, United States
- Website
- www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1966
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£34m£63m
- 2024£27m£55m
- 2023£19m£50m
Earlier years
- 2022£16m£38m
- 2021£23m£29m
Charitable objects
TO APPLY INCOME AND/OR CAPITAL FOR PROMOTION OR ADVANCEMENT IN THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND U S A OF EDUCATIONAL OR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ANY WAY THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.
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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.
15 trustees on the board
- Christopher George Oechsli since 2020
- Douglas Alexander Beck since 2020
- Dr Charlotte Mary Deane MBE since 2022
- Dr Tariro Makadzange since 2016
- Frederick Swaniker since 2022
- Michael Clifford Fitzpatrick since 2018
- Neeti Bhalla Johnson since 2020
- Professor Oladapo Oladipo Olakunle Akande since 2020
- Professor SIR John Irving Bell since 2017
- Peter Stamos since 2018
- Professor Catherine Mary Elizabeth O'Regan since 2018
- Professor Elleke Boehmer since 2016
- Robert Andrew Sternfels since 2019
- Robert Steven Harrison since 2022
- Samuel Andrew Banks since 2014
- Swati Mylavarapu since 2020
7.3y median 7y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure
Trustees past 6 years
- Christopher George Oechsli since 2020
- Douglas Alexander Beck since 2020
- Dr Tariro Makadzange since 2016
- Michael Clifford Fitzpatrick since 2018
- Neeti Bhalla Johnson since 2020
- Professor Oladapo Oladipo Olakunle Akande since 2020
- Professor SIR John Irving Bell since 2017
- Peter Stamos since 2018
- Professor Catherine Mary Elizabeth O'Regan since 2018
- Professor Elleke Boehmer since 2016
- Robert Andrew Sternfels since 2019
- Samuel Andrew Banks since 2014
- Swati Mylavarapu since 2020
10.2y
average years in governance
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- Christopher George Oechsli since 2020
- Douglas Alexander Beck since 2020
- Dr Charlotte Mary Deane MBE since 2022
- Dr Tariro Makadzange since 2016
- Frederick Swaniker since 2022
- Michael Clifford Fitzpatrick since 2018
- Neeti Bhalla Johnson since 2020
- Peter Stamos since 2018
- Robert Andrew Sternfels since 2019
- Samuel Andrew Banks since 2014
- Swati Mylavarapu since 2020
Portfolio (4)
- Professor Oladapo Oladipo Olakunle Akande since 2020
- Professor SIR John Irving Bell since 2017
- Professor Catherine Mary Elizabeth O'Regan since 2018
- Professor Elleke Boehmer since 2016
2
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 15General Charitable Purposes 2Religious Activities 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.
Professional services 4Finance 2Arts and leisure 1
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.
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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
incomespending£34.1m 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.
2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months
150 from 90 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
- 232492
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- RHODES TRUST ACTS 1946MAIN REPORTING CHARITY LINKED TO 314119 UNDER S96(6) FOR ACCOUNTING PURPOSES
- Contact on the register
- 01865270916 · finance.director@rhodeshouse.ox.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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