The Institute's Focus
The Gradel Institute of Charity opened on 29 September 2023 and is focused on using its research and collaboration with like-minded organisations to educate and inspire charities and other third sector organisations to embrace purposeful change to impact the world.
Based in a striking tower in Savile Road that blends in perfectly with New College and the surrounding Oxford landscape, the Institute aims to become a beacon for both the academic study of charity and the charity sector itself.
The Institute will:
- Conduct the highest quality research.
- Provide a recognised global forum where ideas relating to charity can be discussed.
- Fill the current gap in the availability of practical, soundly-based programmes which will deliver change in the sector.
- Help create teaching, as well as executive development.
It aims to help develop the governance and leadership of charities and help them measure and so improve the impact they have both nationally and globally.
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The Institute's relationship with New College
The academic tradition at New College has always been open. The Gradel Institute of Charity reflects that past commitment, but also feels an appropriate way of helping protect and enhance the Third Sector in the future.
The Institute has a strong commitment to academic research – and that extends into having a number of dedicated research centres, including the Balzan Centre for Cosmological Studies and the Sir Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics.
The Gradel Institute of Charity is an integral part of New College, with the supervising Committee reporting to our Governing Body. The Warden chairs the Committee, whilst the Academic Director and Executive Director are members of the Senior Common Room.
At the same time, New College is very clear that it does not have an exclusive relationship with the Gradel Institute of Charity. It will collaborate with different colleges in Oxford, and with different Universities in the UK and the wider world. Ours is an open relationship premised on obtaining the best and most useful research.
