WOLFSON COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
In conjunction with the University of Oxford, the College provides academic and pastoral support for 650 graduate students, recognised internationally as being of the highest standard. Students develop academically, advance their leadership qualities and communication skills and prepare to play full and effective roles in society. Early career support for developing academics is also provided.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 July 2024
Total income:
£11,801,000
Donations and legacies | £2.19m | |
Charitable activities | £7.14m | |
Other trading activities | £600.00k | |
Investments | £1.83m | |
Other | £42.00k |
Total expenditure:
£10,537,000
Raising funds | £482.00k | |
Charitable activities | £9.47m | |
Other | £590.00k |
£5,947,000 investments gains (losses)
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 | £1.07m | |
Charitable expenditure | £9.47m | |
Retained for future use | £1.26m |
Raising funds and other expenditure | £1.07m | |
Charitable expenditure | £9.47m | |
Retained for future use | £7.21m |
People

134 Employee(s)
55 Trustee(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
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£60k to £70k | 4 |
£70k to £80k | 1 |
£110k to £120k | 1 |
£120k to £130k | 1 |
Fundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- Education/training
- Accommodation/housing
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Amateur Sport
- Children/young People
- Other Defined Groups
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Oxfordshire
Governance
- 14 April 2011: Standard registration
- 18 June 2015: Funds received from 1078083 MICHAEL ARIS MEMORIAL TRUST FOR TIBETAN AND HIMALA...
- WOLFSON COLLEGE (Working name)
- WOLFSON COLLEGE OXFORD (Working name)
- THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF WOLFSON COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Previous name)
- Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity 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
55 Trustee(s)
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Professor Robert Ali McCutcheon | Trustee | 10 February 2025 |
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Dr Mohsen Mosleh | Trustee | 01 October 2024 |
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Professor Ester Mary Hammond | Trustee | 01 January 2024 |
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Professor Francisco Jesus Lizana Moral | Trustee | 01 January 2024 |
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Dr Liam Anthony McNamara | Trustee | 01 October 2023 |
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Dr Frederique Helene Duyrat | Trustee | 04 September 2023 |
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Dr Meron-Martin Piotrkowski | Trustee | 01 September 2023 |
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Dr John William Hanson | Trustee | 01 September 2023 |
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Professor Rebecca Jane Howells | Trustee | 03 April 2023 |
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Professor Nobuko Yoshida | Trustee | 01 October 2022 |
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Professor Upamanyu Mukherjee | Trustee | 01 September 2022 |
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Dr Rachel Elizabeth Wood | Trustee | 12 June 2022 |
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Professor Annina Barbara Schmid | Trustee | 01 May 2022 |
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Professor Arjune Sen | Trustee | 01 May 2022 |
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Dr Konstantinos Kamnitsas | Trustee | 01 February 2022 |
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Dr Chihab El Khachab | Trustee | 02 September 2021 |
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Professor Julie Genevieve Odile Leone Cosmidis | Trustee | 01 October 2020 |
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Professor David William RAY | Trustee | 01 January 2020 |
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Professor Jagdeep NANCHAHAL | Trustee | 01 January 2020 |
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Professor Loren Brett LANDAU | Trustee | 01 October 2019 |
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Professor John Jeoffey LOWE | Trustee | 01 October 2019 |
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Dr Huw Thomas David | Trustee | 01 April 2019 |
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PROFESSOR Matthew Rushworth | Trustee | 31 January 2019 |
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PROFESSOR Linda Mulcahy | Trustee | 01 January 2019 |
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Sir Timothy Mark Hitchens | Trustee | 01 May 2018 |
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Dr Nayanika Mathur | Trustee | 01 October 2017 |
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Professor Alain Fouad George | Trustee | 01 October 2017 |
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Dr Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina | Trustee | 01 October 2017 |
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Emily Victoria Eastham | Trustee | 26 June 2017 |
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Professor Ruben ANDERSSON | Trustee | 01 August 2016 |
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RICHARD MORIN | Trustee | 16 December 2015 |
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PROFESSOR MATTHEW COSTA | Trustee | 26 May 2015 |
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Dr Moritz Riede | Trustee | 17 December 2013 |
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PROFESSOR PAUL JARVIS | Trustee | 17 December 2013 |
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PROFESSOR PETER CHARLES STEWART | Trustee | 10 May 2013 |
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PROFESSOR DE MELO WOLFGANG | Trustee | 10 May 2013 |
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PROFESSOR NIKITA SUD | Trustee | 10 May 2013 |
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PROFESSOR JONATHAN BARRETT | Trustee | 10 May 2013 |
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Dr IMRE BANGHA | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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PROFESSOR RICK SCHULTING | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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PROFESSOR PAUL HARRISON | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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Dr ERICA CHARTERS | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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PROFESSOR VLATKO VEDRAL | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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PROFESSOR JONATHAN PILA | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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PROFESSOR BETTINA LANGE | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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PROFESSOR DAVID TAYLOR | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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PROFESSOR MARC VENTRESCA | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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PROFESSOR CHRISTINA REDFIELD | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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PROFESSOR ELLEKE BOEHMER | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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PROFESSOR ZEYNEP YUREKLI-GORKAY | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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PROFESSOR FRANCES GARDNER | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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PROFESSOR JAN FELLERER | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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Professor Ulrike Roesler | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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Dr JAMES LEWIS | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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PROFESSOR JACOB DAHL | Trustee | 14 April 2011 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
Income / Expenditure | 31/07/2020 | 31/07/2021 | 31/07/2022 | 31/07/2023 | 31/07/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £7.71m | £9.47m | £14.97m | £11.49m | £11.80m | |
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Total expenditure | £7.67m | £7.42m | £8.86m | £8.76m | £10.54m | |
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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 | £20.53k | £1.31m | £4.41m | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £3.29m | £3.39m | £7.27m | £3.05m | £2.19m | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £401.00k | £124.00k | £324.00k | £383.00k | £600.00k | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £4.80m | £5.22m | £5.84m | £6.24m | £7.14m | |
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Income - Endowments | £2.70m | £1.02m | £113.00k | £162.00k | £711.00k | |
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Income - Investment | £1.49m | £1.42m | £1.59m | £1.97m | £1.83m | |
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Income - Other | £432.00k | £328.00k | £56.00k | £13.00k | £42.00k | |
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Income - Legacies | £21.00k | £0 | £0 | £0 | £400.00k | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £6.83m | £6.91m | £8.07m | £7.96m | £9.47m | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £839.00k | £506.00k | £791.00k | £794.00k | £482.00k | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £20.00k | £20.00k | £21.00k | £21.00k | £2.57m | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £150.00k | £140.00k | £211.00k | £163.00k | £187.00k | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £590.00k |
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 | 31/07/2020 | 31/07/2021 | 31/07/2022 | 31/07/2023 | 31/07/2024 | ||
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Own use assets | £18.90m | £18.81m | £27.36m | £33.81m | £33.81m | |
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Long-term investments | £60.38m | £70.76m | £70.33m | £66.89m | £74.26m | |
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Other assets | £4.54m | £8.69m | £7.47m | £5.00m | £3.45m | |
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Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability | -£1.11m | -£965.00k | -£1.58m | -£810.00k | £0 | |
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Total liabilities | £1.07m | £2.11m | £2.46m | £2.02m | £1.43m |
Accounts and annual returns
Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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Annual return | 31 July 2024 | 11 December 2024 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 July 2024 | 11 December 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 July 2023 | 05 December 2023 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 July 2023 | 05 December 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 July 2022 | 23 January 2023 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 July 2022 | 23 January 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 July 2021 | 11 February 2022 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 July 2021 | 11 February 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 July 2020 | 28 May 2021 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 July 2020 | 28 May 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Governing document
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 18/02/1981 AND STATUTES OF 26 JULY 1995
Charitable objects
FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF LEARNING AND EDUCATION AND TO BE A COLLEGE WHEREIN MEN AND WOMEN MAY CARRY OUT ADVANCED STUDY OR RESEARCH AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, SHALL HAVE A SPECIAL CONCERN FOR THE PROMOTION OF STUDIES IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES.
Area of benefit
OXFORDSHIRE
Contact information
- Address:
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WOLFSON COLLEGE
LINTON ROAD
OXFORD
OX2 6UD
- Phone:
- 01865274104
- Website:
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WWW.WOLFSON.OX.AC.UK
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