Common questions about The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College a good charity? +
The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College scores 51 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 97% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College as a registered charity (charity number 1137512). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1137512&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's charity number? +
The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's charity number is 1137512. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's charity rating? +
The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College scores 51 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; very high reserves). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 97% of The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 3% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 3% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College. The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports 14 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College receive? +
The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College reported £15m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-01-16). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College based? +
The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's registered contact address is in Cambridge (CB3 9DF). It tells the regulator it operates in Cambridgeshire, with a focus on education.
How much is The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports 14 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's money come from? +
The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College reported £15m total income for the year ending 30 June 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £9.7m (65%), donations and legacies £2.7m (18%), investments £2.4m (16%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £764k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College? +
The register records The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's trustees paid? +
The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College registered as a charity? +
The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College was entered on the register on 17 August 2010. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number RC000384).
How does CharityCompare score The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.