THE ARCHBISHOPS' COUNCIL

Registered charity 1074857 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Enabling, supporting, sustaining & advancing of the Church's:-worship, spiritual & numerical growth-engagement with social justice & environmental issues-work in education, lifelong learning & discipleship-selection, training and resourcing of people for public ministry & lay vocations-inherited fabric of buildings, to maintain & develop these for worship & community service.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources were £232.6m with charitable expenditure of £232.2m, resulting in a net income of £3.9m. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £3.6m, which the trustees consider adequate despite being below the stated policy target of one to three months' expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £200,001 - £210,000 (FY2024) to £210,001 - £220,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• William Nye — Secretary-General (source)
• Simon Gallagher — Administrative Secretary / Director: Central Secretariat (source)
• Debbie Clinton — Director: Vision & Strategy (source)
• Emily Gee — Director: Cathedral & Church Buildings (source)
• Alexander Kubeyinje — Director: National Safeguarding Team (source)
• Helen Fraser — Director: Living in Love and Faith (source)
• Guy Hewitt — Director: Racial Justice Unit (source)
• Alexander McGregor — Director: Legal Office (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Nigel Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHRISTOPHER GILL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Canon Alison Coulter
• Canon Dr JAMES HERBERT HARRISON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Canon MARK SHEARD
• Carl David Hughes · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr Rachel Margaret Elizabeth Jepson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Joseph Diwakar
• Julie Marie Jones
• Most Revd and Rt Hon Stephen Geoffrey Cottrell · trustee of 2 other charities
• PETER LAWRENCE DOYLE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Revd Canon Kate Wharton
• THE RT REVD DR MARK SIMON AUSTIN TANNER · trustee of 6 other charities
• The Most Revd Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally · trustee of 5 other charities
• The Rt Revd Deborah Mary Sellin
• The Venerable Dr Miranda Threlfall-Holmes · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Venerable Luke Jonathan Miller · trustee of 9 other charities

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• MOST REVD AND RT HON STEPHEN GEOFFREY COTTRELL — trustee here and at CHURCH COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND
• The Most Revd Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally — trustee here and at CANTERBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE
• The Most Revd Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally — trustee here and at CHURCH COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND
• The Most Revd Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally — trustee here and at THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ARCHDIOCESE OF LIVERPOOL.

• ARCHDIOCESE OF LIVERPOOL income £38.7m
• LIVERPOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESAN TRUST income £38.7m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH WITH ALL SAINTS SPITALFIELDS income £1.2m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ECCLESALL, SHEFFIELD income £723k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CHURT AND RUSHMOOR income £128k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PATRICK, WALLINGTON income £351k

Side by side with its peers

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