Registered charity · Oxford
The E P A Cephalosporin Fund
- 6 trustees
- Income £4.4m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Where
- City Of Westminster, Hampshire, Oxfordshire
- Registered
- 1970
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4.4m£4.7m
- 2024£4.2m£1.4m
- 2023£4.0m£5.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£3.8m£1.9m
- 2021£3.5m£881k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE FURTHERANCE OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN THE MEDICAL BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL SCIENCES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, (INCLUDING ITS COLLEGES HALLS AND SOCIETIES) AND BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON AND AT KING EDWARD VI SCHOOL SOUTHAMPTON IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT. THE CARRYING OUT OF SUCH OTHER LEGALLY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN THE MEDICAL, BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL SCIENCES AS THE TRUSTEES FOR THE TIME BEING SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME BY DEED DECLARE.
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
- Professor Neil Barclay Chair since 2012
- Professor Jeffery Errington FRS since 1999
- Professor Penelope ANN Handford since 2014
- Professor Christoph Marcel Tang since 2025
- Professor Philip Anton van der Merwe since 2017
- Professor Tony Green since 2015
Trustees past 6 years
- Professor Neil Barclay Chair since 2012
- Professor Jeffery Errington FRS since 1999
- Professor Penelope ANN Handford since 2014
- Professor Philip Anton van der Merwe since 2017
- Professor Tony Green since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Professor Jeffery Errington FRS since 1999
- Professor Penelope ANN Handford since 2014
- Professor Christoph Marcel Tang since 2025
- Professor Tony Green since 2015
Portfolio (2)
- Professor Neil Barclay Chair since 2012
- Professor Philip Anton van der Merwe since 2017
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- 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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 309698
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 18 MAY 1970AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 01 JAN 1978AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 16 JUL 2012AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 14 JAN 2015
- Contact on the register
- 01865 275573 · rachel.faulkes@path.ox.ac.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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