THE ARCHBISHOPS' COUNCIL

Registered charity 1074857 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£234.9m
Latest spending
£232.2m
Registered
1999
Accounts read
FY2025

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.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £210,001 - £220,000 — above the median for charities its size (£180k)
£210,001 to £220,000 1 - - - — page 76
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Governance: The Council made 12 Report of a Serious Incident (RSI) reports to the Charity Commission and filed 10 updates on such reports.
During 2025 the Council made 12 Report of a Serious Incident (RSI) reports to the Charity Commission and filed 10 updates on such reports, a figure which includes responses to questions raised by the Commission on a previously submitted RSI.
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Year-over-year changes

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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

Total income
£234.9m
Total spending
£232.2m
Reserves (reported)
£3.6m
Employees
206

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

Trustees

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£234.9m£232.2m
31/12/2024£235.6m£229.4m
31/12/2023£186.0m£182.4m
31/12/2022£153.2m£152.5m
31/12/2021£128.1m£128.7m

Common questions

Is THE ARCHBISHOPS' COUNCIL financially healthy?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of THE ARCHBISHOPS' COUNCIL earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £210,001 - £220,000 band.

Who funds THE ARCHBISHOPS' COUNCIL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE ARCHBISHOPS' COUNCIL as a grant recipient include THE SOUTH LONDON CHURCH FUND AND SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE, THE CHELMSFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE, THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE, THE BLACKBURN DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED, THE ELY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE.

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.

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).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund04/07/2024£4.7m"#PW ChurchCare Conservation Grants Programme"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund04/11/2015£10k"Church Heritage Record - The Canon Clarke Collection"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund14/07/2006£50k"Making Our Mark: Redemption, Restoration and Resurrection in 2007"

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