Registrary's Office
The University as a charity
The University of Cambridge is an exempt charity subject to regulation by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) under the Charities Act 2006.
The University is a common law corporation, being a corporation by prescription consisting of a Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars who from time out of mind have had the government of their members and enjoyed the privileges of such a corporation. By Act of Parliament 13 Elizabeth Cap. 29 passed in the year 1571 the incorporation of the University and all privileges then held under charter or by prescription were duly confirmed.
The corporate title of the University is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge but is more commonly referred to as the University of Cambridge.
The correspondence address is: University of Cambridge, The Old Schools, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TS.
The University's main constitutional documents are its Statutes and Ordinances.
You can also view the University's Reports and Financial Statements for 2010–11.
The members of the University's Council, the principal executive and policy-making body of the University, are the charity trustees of the University. The current membership of the Council is:
The Vice-Chancellor
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Professor of Medicine, Fellow of Wolfson College
Members elected by the Regent House
Heads of Colleges in the University:
- Sir Christopher Hum, Master of Gonville and Caius College
- Professor Frank Kelly, Master of Christ's College, Professor of the Mathematics of Systems
- Professor Robert Lethbridge, Master of Fitzwilliam College, Honorary Professor of Nineteenth-Century French Literature, Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust
- Professor David Yates, Warden of Robinson College
Professors and Readers in the University
- Professor David Abulafia, Professor of Mediterranean History, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College
- Professor Dame Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics, Fellow of Robinson College
- Professor Nick Gay, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Fellow of Christ's College
- Professor Andy Hopper, Professor of Computer Technology, Head of the Computer Laboratory, Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall
Members of the Regent House
- Dr Nick Bampos, Assistant Director of Research in Chemistry, Senior Tutor of Trinity Hall
- Dr Richard Barnes, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, Senior Tutor of Emmanuel College
- Dr Stephen Cowley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
- Mr Bob Dowling, Senior Computer Officer, University Computing Service
- Mr Ian Du Quesnay, Bursar of Newnham College
- Dr David Good, Lecturer in Social and Developmental Psychology, Fellow of King's College
- Dr Susan Oosthuizen, Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Continuing Education, Fellow of Wolfson College
- Dr Rachael Padman, Lecturer in Physics, Fellow of Newnham College
External members appointed by Grace of the Regent House
- Mr Dominic Casserley, McKinsey and Company
- Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB, Director General of Ordnance Survey
- Dame Mavis McDonald (Deputy Chair of the Council with effect from 1 January 2011), formerly Permanent Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Mr John Shakeshaft (Chair of the Audit Committee of the Council with effect from 1 January 2011), Company Director
Student members selected by students in the University
Elected by all students:
- Mr Gerard Tully (President of the Cambridge University Students Union)
- Mr Morgan Wild (Education Officer of the Cambridge University Students Union)
Elected by graduate students:
- Mr Thomas Parry-Jones
You can also view a list of the other charity trusteeships held by members of the Council.