BIRMINGHAM DIOCESAN TRUST

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

Provision of religious services, maintenance of church, school and related property. Maintenance and support of clergy. Education. Relief of sick and poor catholics and other associated works of charity.

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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.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

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.

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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).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (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 · trustee networks

• 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

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PLYMOUTH DIOCESAN TRUST.

• PLYMOUTH DIOCESAN TRUST income £7.6m
• SHREWSBURY ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST income £18.2m
• LEEDS DIOCESAN TRUST income £13.3m
• THE ORATORY OF ST PHILIP NERI AT BIRMINGHAM income £705k
• THE BIRMINGHAM SHADHILIYA TRUST income £11k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BIRMINGHAM PARISH CHURCH (ST. MARTIN IN THE BULL RING) income £446k

Side by side with its peers

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