Donations Committee
William Crowe made this Freedom of Information request to Balliol College, Oxford This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Balliol College, Oxford,
I am writing to request information on how the College considers small donations to local organisations.
These may be the responsibility of a specific committee (not necessarily called Donations Committee) or they may be addressed by a general committee (which may be called General Purposes Committee, Internal Committee, or another name).
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.
Yours faithfully,
William Crowe
Dear William,
Further to your request under the Freedom of Information Act, I can respond to your queries as follows:
The College does not have a committee which is responsible for the consideration of small donations to local organisations. Therefore, the request for minutes does not apply to this response.
Any requests for donations are considered with reference to the College's charitable activities, as noted on the Charity Commission's website "In pursuit of our charitable objects to advance education, religion, learning and research within the context of the University of Oxford, we admit, teach, and mentor undergraduate and graduate students on a wide variety of degree courses, facilitate research and scholarship within the academic membership of the College, and cater for an international community of learning, and maintain a chapel."
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