THE MASTER AND FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OR HALL OF SAINT CATHARINE THE VIRGIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
A College in the University of Cambridge to advance education, religion, learning and research in the arts, social sciences and natural sciences. To achieve this, the College provides, in conjunction with the University of Cambridge, an education for some 600 undergraduate and graduate students which is recognised internationally as being of the highest standard.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 30 June 2024
Total income:
£21,359,000
Donations and legacies | £6.08m | |
Charitable activities | £8.74m | |
Other trading activities | £1.66m | |
Investments | £4.62m | |
Other | £268.00k |
Total expenditure:
£15,744,000
Raising funds | £2.47m | |
Charitable activities | £12.68m | |
Other | £595.00k |
£10,707,000 investments gains (losses)
Total income includes £166,367 from 1 government grant(s)
Charitable expenditure
Charitable expenditure with investment gains
Charitable expenditure
Some charities generate all, or a substantial part, of their income from investments which may have been donated to the charity as endowment or set aside by the charity from its own resources in the past. Such investments usually take the form of stocks and shares but may include other assets, such as property, that are capable of generating income and/or capital growth.
In managing their spending and investments charities need to strike a balance between the needs of future and current beneficiaries. They also need to take account of spending commitments that may stretch over a number of future years. To do this, charities will normally adopt an investment strategy designed to generate both income and capital growth. To maximise returns trustees may commit to investment strategies for several years.
Investments can experience large swings in value so trustees may, in a particular year, decide to realise and spend part of their charity’s capital or to invest part of its income.
By clicking the investment gains checkbox the charitable spending bar is adjusted to take account of capital growth as well as income. This shows the balance the charity is striking, between spending on current beneficiaries and retaining resources for future beneficiaries.
Raising funds and other expenditure | £3.07m | |
Charitable expenditure | £12.68m | |
Retained for future use | £5.62m |
Raising funds and other expenditure | £3.07m | |
Charitable expenditure | £12.68m | |
Retained for future use | £16.32m |
People

187 Employee(s)
63 Trustee(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
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£70k to £80k | 7 |
£80k to £90k | 3 |
£90k to £100k | 4 |
£100k to £110k | 1 |
£110k to £120k | 1 |
Fundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- Education/training
- Other Defined Groups
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Cambridgeshire
Governance
- 12 August 2010: Standard registration
- ST CATHARINE'S COLLEGE (Working name)
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
63 Trustee(s)
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Sir John Benger | Chair | 01 October 2023 |
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Dr Doriane Zerka | Trustee | 01 October 2023 |
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Dr Nisha Nixon | Trustee | 01 October 2023 |
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Dr Pablo Adolfo Olmos | Trustee | 01 October 2023 |
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Professor Adrian Liston | Trustee | 01 October 2023 |
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Catherine Twilley | Trustee | 01 May 2023 |
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Dr Varun Warrier | Trustee | 24 February 2023 |
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Professor Colm Durkan | Trustee | 11 November 2022 |
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Dr Peter Candy | Trustee | 01 October 2022 |
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Dr Mikhail Safronov | Trustee | 01 October 2022 |
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Dr Noriko Amano-Patino | Trustee | 01 October 2021 |
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Dr Hend Hanafy | Trustee | 01 September 2021 |
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Dr Liana Cheng Lian Chua | Trustee | 01 September 2021 |
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Dr Tristan Cummings | Trustee | 01 September 2021 |
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Dr Andrzej Szewczak-Harris | Trustee | 01 October 2020 |
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Dr Joe Ellis | Trustee | 01 September 2020 |
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Professor Rahul Roychoudhuri | Trustee | 01 June 2020 |
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Dr Holly Canuto | Trustee | 03 March 2020 |
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Prof Pierre Raphael | Trustee | 04 October 2019 |
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Nicola Robert | Trustee | 24 May 2019 |
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Rev Ally Barrett | Trustee | 23 April 2019 |
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Helen Hayward | Trustee | 14 January 2019 |
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Professor Michael Lennard Nicholson | Trustee | 01 October 2018 |
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Dr Sura Qadiri | Trustee | 01 October 2018 |
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Dr Valentina Caldari | Trustee | 01 October 2018 |
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Dr Colin Higgins | Trustee | 01 October 2018 |
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Professor Chiara Ciccarelli | Trustee | 01 October 2018 |
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Dr Niamh Gallagher | Trustee | 01 October 2018 |
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Prof Julian Allwood | Trustee | 28 August 2018 |
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Dr Yujiang River Chen | Trustee | 27 September 2017 |
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Professor Simon Taylor | Trustee | 01 October 2016 |
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Dr Jennifer Sidey | Trustee | 30 September 2016 |
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Professor Jessica Gwynne | Trustee | 01 October 2014 |
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Professor Hazem Kandil | Trustee | 01 October 2012 |
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Professor STEFAN MARCINIAK | Trustee | 10 April 2012 |
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Professor JEFFREY DALLEY | Trustee |
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Professor RICHARD HARRISON | Trustee |
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Dr ROSE MELIKAN | Trustee |
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PROF EILIS FERRAN | Trustee |
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Professor PETER WOTHERS | Trustee |
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Professor ELIA KANTARIS | Trustee |
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Professor ABIGAIL BRUNDIN | Trustee |
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MICHAEL KITSON | Trustee |
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Dr IVAN SCALES | Trustee |
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Professor IAN WILLIS | Trustee |
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Professor MICHAEL SUTCLIFFE | Trustee |
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Professor STUART ALTHORPE | Trustee |
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Dr HESTER LEES-JEFFRIES | Trustee |
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IRENA BORZYM | Trustee |
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Professor KATHARINE DELL | Trustee |
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Professor DAVID BAINBRIDGE | Trustee |
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Dr EDWARD WICKHAM | Trustee |
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Professor NORA BEREND | Trustee |
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Dr CAROLINE GONDA | Trustee |
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Professor RICHARD DANCE | Trustee |
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Professor Sir CHRISTOPHER CLARK | Trustee |
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Dr GILLIAN CLARE CARR | Trustee |
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Professor DAVID ALDRIDGE | Trustee |
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PROF JOHAN JACOB VAN DE VEN | Trustee |
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Professor MATTHEW MASON | Trustee |
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Professor MARK ELLIOTT | Trustee |
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Professor SRIYA IYER | Trustee |
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Prof. HARALD WYDRA | Trustee |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
Income / Expenditure | 30/06/2020 | 30/06/2021 | 30/06/2022 | 30/06/2023 | 30/06/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £15.15m | £18.04m | £17.32m | £17.71m | £21.36m | |
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Total expenditure | £13.86m | £12.94m | £14.49m | £15.73m | £15.74m | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | £166.37k | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £3.63m | £9.23m | £5.80m | £4.43m | £6.08m | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £1.74m | £21 | £283.00k | £1.05m | £1.66m | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £6.51m | £5.91m | £7.44m | £7.79m | £8.74m | |
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Income - Endowments | £189.00k | £1.18m | £823.00k | £1.11m | £4.48m | |
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Income - Investment | £3.07m | £3.56m | £3.51m | £4.30m | £4.62m | |
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Income - Other | £401.00k | £513.00k | £295.00k | £146.00k | £268.00k | |
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Income - Legacies | £50.00k | £1.71m | £4.12k | £1.74m | £435.21k | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £10.19m | £10.19m | £11.67m | £12.02m | £12.68m | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £2.97m | £2.24m | £2.27m | £3.09m | £2.47m | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £73.00k | £89.58k | £68.79k | £114.00k | £81.62k | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £224.00k | £84.00k | £51.00k | £109.00k | £72.00k | |
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Expenditure - Other | £706.00k | £511.00k | £555.00k | £630.00k | £595.00k |
Assets and liabilities
Definitions for assets and liabilities
These are assets, other than investments, which are held for more than 12 months and used to run and administer the charity such as buildings, offices, exhibits and fixtures and fittings.
Long term InvestmentsInvestments are assets held by the charity with the sole aim of generating income which will be used for their charitable purposes such as deposit accounts, shares, rental property and unit trusts.
Investment assets are re-valued every year and included in the balance sheet at their current market value.
Long term investments are held for more than 12 months.
These are assets held generally for less than 12 months such as cash and bank balances, debtors, investments to be sold within the coming year and trading stock.
Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liabilityThis is a surplus or deficit in any defined benefit pension scheme operated and represents a potential long-term asset or liability.
Total liabilitiesThese are all the amounts owed by the charity at the balance sheet date to third parties such as bills due but not yet paid, bank overdrafts and loans and mortgages.
Asset / Liability | 30/06/2020 | 30/06/2021 | 30/06/2022 | 30/06/2023 | 30/06/2024 | ||
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Own use assets | £57.72m | £61.44m | £72.80k | £79.55m | £82.85m | |
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Long-term investments | £123.42m | £141.61m | £132.10k | £128.41m | £139.72m | |
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Other assets | £3.67m | £2.88m | £3.27k | £3.83m | £4.09m | |
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Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability | -£5.80m | -£4.74m | -£3.19k | -£2.51m | -£1.33m | |
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Total liabilities | £33.24m | £33.34m | £33.77k | £34.43m | £34.07m |
Accounts and annual returns
Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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Annual return | 30 June 2024 | 11 April 2025 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2024 | 11 April 2025 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 30 June 2023 | 25 March 2024 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2023 | 25 March 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 30 June 2022 | 10 March 2023 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2022 | 10 March 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 30 June 2021 | 29 January 2022 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2021 | 29 January 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 30 June 2020 | 21 January 2021 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2020 | 21 January 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Governing document
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
CHARTER OF 16 AUGUST 1475 AND STATUTES OF 7 JUNE 2006 LAST AMENDED 1 APRIL 2007.
Charitable objects
A COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, RELIGION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH IN THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND SCIENCES.
Area of benefit
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Contact information
- Address:
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ST. CATHARINE'S COLLEGE
CAMBRIDGE
CB2 1RL
- Phone:
- 01223338329
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