BIRMINGHAM DIOCESAN TRUST

Registered charity 234216 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRCDTR, R C ARCHDIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating loss of £1.69m for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in an overall surplus of £4.44m after investment gains. The trustees note that while cash reserves have increased, unrestricted cash reserves in parishes decreased, and the Diocese itself holds a significant deficit position, though total assets remain substantial at £122.7m.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Bernard Longley — Archbishop of Birmingham (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~9.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/06/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/03/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• The Most Reverend Bernard Longleychair · trustee of 6 other charities
• BRCDTR
• Jacqueline Francis · trustee of 3 other charities
• Kari Ann Gordon
• Mr C Loughran
• Peter John Leonard Simmonds Vella · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Timothy Menezes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Right Reverend David Ernest Charles Evans · trustee of 2 other charities
• Right Reverend Richard Adrian Walker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sophia Pain
• Tomasz Piotrowski · trustee of 1 other charity
• Very Rev JONATHAN VEASEY STL · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Oxfordshire · Sandwell · Solihull · Staffordshire · Walsall · Warwickshire · Wolverhampton

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Government & lottery funding

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