THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION

Registered charity 1059195 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION

The charity's activities include assisting schools within the diocese to develop and maintain the distinctive Christian nature of church schools. We support schools and governors in all aspects of their responsibilities and also work in close strategic partnership with local authorities to influence school organisation and raise standards and achievements. We are developing Christian outreach.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an underlying operating surplus of £23k for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a deficit in the prior year, with a plan to achieve a recurrent underlying operating breakeven position by 2028. Per the trustees' report, total reserves decreased by £561k to £9,468k, primarily due to investment losses and SCA capital reserve movements, but unrestricted and restricted income funds remain sufficient to fund the identified financial gap.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore (South) LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00464306

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Pain — Diocesan Secretary and Chief Executive Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CULLEN, Helen — director, appointed 01/09/2026on trustee list
• SAYER, Penelope Jane, The Venerable — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• LEE, Martin Paul, Rev — director, appointed 02/01/2024on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Ian Keith — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• BROWN, Andrew Jonathan — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• HARRISON, Noel — director, appointed 30/11/2018on trustee list
• REES, Nigel Ieuan — director, appointed 31/01/2018on trustee list
• PUGH, Giles — secretary, appointed 01/09/2016

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

222 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (216 freehold); recorded price paid £40k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (34% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Jonathan Brown
• Helen Cullen
• Ian Keith Robinson
• Nigel Ieuan REES · trustee of 3 other charities
• Noel Harrison · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Martin Paul Lee
• The Ven. Penelope Jane Sayer · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION (INCORPORATED).

• THE SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION (INCORPORATED) income £8.4m
• OXFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £7.2m
• DERBY DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £445k
• SALISBURY CATHEDRAL SCHOOL LIMITED income £3.7m
• COVENTRY DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £491k
• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £13.9m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.