Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 3
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Good Reserves: +1Pension deficit: -1
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +3
    Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

    THE QUEENS' COLLEGE OF SAINT MARGARET AND SAINT BERNARD IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 

    A College in the University of Cambridge
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from a grant maker
    • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
    • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end but unrestricted reserves are available
    • There is a pension deficit of £4,011,143
    • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

    Financial Data ?

    Income & Spending ?
    Sources of Income ?
    Y/E Income
    £k
    Spending
    £k
    Surplus/
    Deficit
    Fundraising
    Cost £k
    Total
    Funds £k
    Unrestricted
    Funds £k
    Mths
    Rsrvs
    Staff Volun-
    teers
    30/06/23£19,843£19,270£573£2,056£154,440£57,00435.51800
    30/06/22£18,812£17,058£1,754£1,150£149,979£56,820401480
    30/06/21£25,854£14,415£11,438£519£143,050£51,83543.21540
    30/06/20£19,440£15,500£3,940£2,373£115,836£46,04335.61640
    30/06/19£25,521£15,857£9,665£2,106£123,464£54,170411880
    30/06/18£16,251£14,464£1,787£1,996£113,869£41,42134.41880
    30/06/17£15,327£13,231£2,096£1,712£107,722£39,43635.81780
    30/06/16£16,989£12,676£4,312£1,412£96,693£37,25035.31780
    30/06/15£14,170£11,977£2,193£1,691£90,247£58,31458.41700
    30/06/14£14,096£10,715£3,381£1,695£84,706£55,97462.71550
    30/06/13£12,554£10,176£2,379£1,804£75,213£52,12161.51340
    30/06/12£11,181£9,835£1,346£1,877£67,998£49,192601470
    30/06/11£10,458£9,098£1,361£1,791£70,220£51,37167.81560

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 16.4%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12.1%
    Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
    Highest pay band: £140,000-£150,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 13%
    Liabilities/Income: 124%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 37%
    Reserves/Spending: 35.5 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
    Quick Ratio: 0.3
    Asset Split ?
    Established: 14 years
    (54 years as a company)

    www.queens.cam.ac.uk

    info@queens.cam.ac.uk

    01223 335511

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    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Education/Training
    GiG Classification
    • Colleges and universities
    How it operates
    • Makes Grants to Individuals
    • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
    • Provides services
    • Sponsors or undertakes research
    Where it operates
    • Cambridgeshire,
    Who it helps
    • Other Defined Groups
    Who works here?
    • 180 employees

    Who's supporting them? ?

    Donations from Grant Makers ?

    We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Non-hospitalised Children & young people (CYP) with Long Covid (The CLoCk Study)
    £680,319 28/02/2021
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MC_PC_20052
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Queens' College Cambridge
    £65,800 21/10/2015
    Renaissance Queens': Discovering Cambridge's unique Tudor past in the Old Library of Queens' College Cambridge

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 16/08/2010, number: 1137495
    • Registered at Companies House on 01/01/1970, number: RC000422
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Other Regulators
    • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Complaints handling
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • Conflicting interests
    • 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
    Filing Record
    13 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    QUEENS COLLEGE
    CAMBRIDGE
    CB3 9ET

    Objectives

    A COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FOR STUDY AND PRAYER.(IN DICTA UNIVERSITATE NOSTRA CANTEBR, MORATURORUM AD STUDENDUM ET ORANDUM)

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    CAMBRIDGESHIRE

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
    Authorised officials of this charity can add information to this page (including a Donate Now button) for no cost

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