Dear William Crowe,

 

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, received by Merton College on 9 April 2024.

 

Request

 

Your Request was as follows :

 

• If you have a specific committee which considers donations, please
provide its most recent minutes.
• If you have a general committee which considers donations, please
provide the most recent decision on donations from its minutes.
• I am also requesting any criteria or guidelines for eligibility and
any criteria or guidelines which the College uses in making decisions
on requests for donations.

 

Response

 

The College’s Response is set out below.

 

• External charitable donations are considered annually in a gathered
field by the Charitable Donations Advisory Group, which reports to the
Finance Committee, which makes recommendations to the Governing Body.
• The most recent report of the Charitable Donations Advisory Group is
attached. The minutes of the Finance Committee record in relation to
this item that the Committee recommended that the College make the
donations proposed. The minutes of the Governing Body record that the
recommendations of the Finance Committee were accepted.
• The College’s policy on external charitable donations is attached to
the report of the Charitable Donations Advisory Group.
• The report of the Charitable Donations Advisory Group has been
redacted to protect the personal data of third parties, disclosure of
which would contravene the data protection principles. The College
relies on section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 
• The documents attached to the report and referred to in paragraph 3.3
of the report have been redacted to protect the personal data of third
parties, disclosure of which would contravene the data protection
principles. The College relies on section 40(2) of the Freedom of
Information Act.

 

If you have any queries about the College’s Response, please feel free to
get in touch with me.

 

Review

 

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your Request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review. Requests for an internal review
should be submitted within forty working days of the date of receipt of
the response to your original Request and should be addressed to:
Professor Jennifer Payne, The Warden, Merton College, Merton Street,
Oxford OX1 4JD.

 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

John Eidinow

 

 

Fra’ John Eidinow

FELLOW and DEAN AND KEEPER OF THE STATUTES

 

Merton College

Oxford OX1 4JD

[1]www.merton.ox.ac.uk

 

College Lodge:+44(0)1865 276310

[2][Merton College request email]

 

 

Merton College (The Warden and Scholars of the House or College of
Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford)

is a body corporate founded in 1264 and is registered as a Charity in
England and Wales | No. 1139022

 

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