Registered charity · Oxford

The Oxford Centre for Mission Studies

9 trustees
Income £1.4m (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, Religious Activities, Economic/community Development/employment
Where: Oxfordshire
Website: www.ocms.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Oxford Centre for Mission Studies
Registered: 1984

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£1.4m£1.1m
2024£1.3m£1.1m
2023£1.1m£1.3m

Earlier years

2022£1.3m£1.1m
2021£1.3m£1.0m

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN CHRISTIAN MISSION, THEOLOGY AND RELATED AREAS.

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.

9 trustees on the board

3.3y median 2y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Dr Ruth Padilla Deborst since 2017

8.6y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

John Colin Heyward since 2021

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Economic/community Development/employment 9Education/training 9Religious Activities 9

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 6Professional 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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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£1.4m 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.

3.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.8 in 2021

16 from 14 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: 290112
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23RD JULY 1984 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 15TH AUGUST 19/97, SPECIAL RESOLUTION OF 15 JUNE 2007 AND RESOLUTION OF 14 JUNE 2008
Companies House: Company number 01835274 · Active
Contact on the register: 01865556071 · ocms@ocms.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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