Dear William Crowe,

Thank you for your email. I acknowledge receipt of your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act and confirm that I am responding as the College’s Information Officer. Under that Act we are required to reply to you within 20 working days from receipt of the request, and hence we will respond to you on or before 17 May 2024 .

Best wishes

Tanya Baldwin (pronouns she/her)
Bursar, St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Please note I do not expect you to reply to my emails outside your normal working hours
www.sant.ox.ac.uk
[email address]
01865 284742

St Antony’s College is a registered charity (number 1141293)

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Dear William Crowe,
 
Thank you for your email of 19 April which we have handled under the
Freedom of Information Act.
 
You enquired about the handling of small donations to local organisations.
We consider these on a case-by-case basis and would not usually take them
through a Committee, hence I am afraid we do not hold minutes of any
discussions. However, I can respond as follows to your questions:
 

• If you have a specific committee which considers donations, please
provide its most recent minutes. St Antony’s College has no specific
Committee that considers donations the College might be asked to make.
• If you have a general committee which considers donations, please
provide the most recent decision on donations from its minutes. The
College has a general committee called the Management Executive Team.
However, this committee would not usually consider requests for
donations from local organisations for consideration. Any such
requests are first reviewed by the Bursar (and then potentially with
the Warden and Accountant) and measured against the College’s
charitable objects as laid out in the College Charter which are
outlined below:

 a. To provide men and women who are members of the University of Oxford
with a College wherein they may work for higher degrees in the
University of Oxford or engage in academic research especially in the
disciplines of the social sciences and the humanities and a range of
other subject areas as approved by the Governing Body.

 a. To do all other such things as are incidental or conducive to
advancing education and academic research in Oxford or elsewhere.
Provided always that the College shall not be deemed to be a body
formed for the purpose of carrying on a business which has for its
object the acquisition of gain either by itself or by the individual
members thereof.

 
It is extremely rare for a request to be in line with the College’s
objects and for this reason, we do not usually provide financial support
to any other organisations.
 

• 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.  The College’s Objects, described above,
are the sole criteria for considering any requests for financial
support from other organisations. 

 
I hope this answers your questions.
 
Tanya Baldwin (she/her)
Bursar
01865 284742
St Antony’s College | University of Oxford 
Oxford OX2 6JF | [1]www.sant.ox.ac.uk  
 
 
Registered Charity Number: 1141293
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