Worcester College Oxford Endowment Trust

Analysis

Worcester College Oxford Endowment Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in December 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, religious activities, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending October 2025, Worcester College Oxford Endowment Trust reported income of £3.0m and spending of £729k, leaving 75% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £311k to £3.0m (+852%), an average of +76% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income rose by 244%. Over the whole period it spent 50% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Worcester College Oxford Endowment Trust 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 97th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Joseph Rank Trust (£2.9m), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Chiddingfold (£3.0m) and West London Mission Methodist Circuit (£2.9m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 81% and investments 19%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £725k. Reserves of £13.4m would cover about 219 months of spending at that rate.