Clare College Cambridge

Analysis

Clare College Cambridge is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridge. It was registered in August 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Clare College Cambridge reported income of £16.0m and spending of £20.4m, spending 128% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £9.8m to £16.0m (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 119% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Clare College Cambridge sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Hilda's College in the University of Oxford (£16.0m), St Margaret's School Bushey (£16.1m) and Mary Hare (£15.9m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from trading 38%, charitable activities 18%, donations and legacies 18% and investments 16%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £129k. Charitable activities took 63% of spending and raising funds 33%. Grants to other organisations totalled £134k. Reserves of £230.5m would cover about 135 months of spending at that rate. It employed 229 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.