EAST ANGLIA DIOCESE DEPENDENT PRIESTS' FUND

Registered charity 1102707 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST ANGLIA DIOCESAN SICK AND RETIRED PRIESTS FUND

Financial support to sick and dependent priests in the Diocese of East Anglia

Objects

TO RAISE MONEY TO APPLY FOR THE AID OF SECULAR PRIESTS OF THE DIOCESE OF EAST ANGLIA (EXCLUDING PRIESTS UNDER THE ECCLESIASTICAL CENSURE) WHO ARE PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY INCAPACITATED BY OLD AGE INFIRMITY ILLNESS OR ACCIDENT

Area of benefit: EAST ANGLIA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves stood at £2.44m at the end of the financial year, with free reserves of £2.31m representing approximately 26 years of current expenditure levels. Although the charity generated a net expenditure over income of £17.7k, this was offset by significant investment gains, resulting in a net increase in funds of £162.5k and a strengthening of the reserve position.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05055534

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.

• BROOKES, Michael Roger, Reverend — director, appointed 12/06/2021on trustee list
• BLAKESLEY, Simon Nicholas, Reverend — director, appointed 29/11/2006on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £135k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev SIMON NICHOLAS BLAKESLEYchair
• Rev Michael Brookes

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Lancashire · Norfolk · Peterborough City · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EAST ANGLIA ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST.

• EAST ANGLIA ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST income £8.1m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CAMBRIDGE ST. BARNABAS income £442k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY, EAST GRINSTEAD income £110k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BEXHILL income £300k
• THE ELY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £11.1m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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