Christ Church

Registered charity 1143423 · since 2011chch.ox.ac.uk·Oxfordshire·Updated 29 October 2026

At a glance

£7,190

Annual giving, year to 31 July 2025

From the Charity Commission register

Key takeaways

Christ Church's funding fits best where the request is for poetry education in a primary or secondary school, since its Tower Poetry Schools Grants are for those schools and prioritise support for teachers' continuing professional development.
Its annual giving is £7,190 and no grant range or typical size is stated, so a modest, specific request is the sensible starting point.
No application process is published in the annual report, its register entry or its website, so the realistic route is to get in touch through the contact it shows, and to frame the request around teachers' professional development.
Oxfordshire is its stated priority, but that is not a limit on who may apply.
Organisations that are not primary or secondary schools should not apply for the Tower Poetry grants.

Overview

Christ Church is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1143423).

Christ Church is a charity registered in England and Wales. It exists to advance religion, education and learning, through Christ Church Cathedral and its choir, Christ Church as a college within the University of Oxford, and the promotion of research, and it also advances arts, culture, heritage and science, including the conservation of collections and buildings. Its annual giving is £7,190. Its programmes include Tower Poetry grants to primary and secondary schools for the understanding, enjoyment and teaching of poetry in English, support for IntoUniversity in Oxford, and bursaries and financial help for current students.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Christ Church advances religion, education and learning through the cathedral and its choir, the college and the promotion of research. It also advances arts, culture, heritage and science, including the conservation of historic collections and buildings. Alongside its own educational and religious work, it considers reasonable charitable donations. Its school grants include support for primary and secondary schools to advance the understanding, enjoyment and teaching of poetry in English, prioritising funding for teachers' continuing professional development. Student support is a particular commitment: bursaries and financial assistance for current students aim to ensure that academic ability, rather than family income, enables them to attend Christ Church.

Themes

Poetry education

Geographic Focus

Priority: Oxfordshire.

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Who can apply:

Tower Poetry Schools Grants: Primary and secondary schools

Application success factors

What the charity says:

For Tower Poetry Schools Grants, the foundation prioritises applications that support teachers' continuing professional development.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Oxfordshire

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Christ Church.

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Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 July 2021	£31,030,057	£34,636,307	—	Accounts for year to 31 July 2021
year to 31 July 2022	£42,371,000	£50,728,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 July 2022
year to 31 July 2023	£39,804,000	£43,174,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 July 2023
year to 31 July 2024	£46,252,000	£47,445,000	£6,840	Accounts for year to 31 July 2024
year to 31 July 2025	£49,983,000	£53,291,000	£7,190	Accounts for year to 31 July 2025

Income vs grants paid

IncomeGrants paid

Total value each financial year

YE 2024

£6,840 grants

YE 2025

£7,190 grants

Grants paid stayed within income across the 2 years shown.

Grants paid, year to 31 July 2024; year to 31 July 2025: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.