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Registered charity · Oxford

The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £6.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.oxcis.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.0m£8.1m
  • 2024£4.1m£6.4m
  • 2023£4.8m£7.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.3m£5.1m
  • 2021£8.6m£4.6m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR THE CENTRE SHALL BE TO MAINTAIN RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OXFORD CENTRE FOR ISLAMIC STUDIES IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THROUGH THE CENTRE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND CHARITABLE RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF ISLAMIC STUDIES, WHICH INCLUDE STUDIES OF THOSE ARTS AND SCIENCES DERIVED FROM OR OF RELEVANCE TO THE ISLAMIC TRADITION AND THE NEEDS OF MUSLIM SOCIETIES AND SUBJECTS WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE COUNCIL ANCILLARY THERETO PARTICULARLY BY AND IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THROUGH THE CENTRE THE ADVANCEMENT OF AN UNDERSTANDING OF ISLAM FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

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.

6.2y median 5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure
5.7y
average years in governance
1
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 14Education/training 14

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • 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£6.0m 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.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 16.4 in 2021

66 from 52 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
293072
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 10/10/1985AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 20/03/1995AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 22/07/2009AS AMENDED BY ROYAL CHARTER DATED 20/04/2012
Contact on the register
01865278731 · islamic.studies@oxcis.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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