THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND PENSIONS BOARD

Registered charity 236627 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BISHOP MORLEY COLLEGE, CHURCH WORKERS PENSIONS AUGMENTATION FUND, CLERGY (WIDOWS AND DEPENDANTS) PENSIONS AUGMENTATION FUND, CLERGY PENSIONS AUGMENTATION FUND, CLERGY RETIREMENT HOUSING TRUST, CLERGY WIDOWS AND DEPENDANTS PENSIONS AUGMENTATION FUND

Provides the best possible support and care, within available resources, to those who have retired from stipendiary and lay ministry within the Church of England, and to their dependants, through the provision of retirement and supported housing, and through discretionary grants to ensure beneficiaries have a minimum income standard.

Objects

THE ADMINISTRATION OF CLERGY PENSIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE CLERGY PENSIONS MEASURE 1961. SEE SCHEME FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wychavon, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds free reserves in the region of £30m - £35m, which the trustees regard as appropriate to provide considerable cover in the case of a one-off significant financial stress event. The charity's total funds stood at £152.4m at the end of the year, with unrestricted funds representing expenditure recovered from pension schemes rather than retained reserves.

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 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Adam Matthews — Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Church of England Pensions Board miningmx.com · 11/10/2026
• Church of England Pensions Board: Rising portfolio emissions need not signal net-zero failure ipe.com · 20/08/2026
• Church of England Pensions Board at 100 churchtimes.co.uk · 19/06/2026
• Church of England Pensions Board marks 100 years anglican.ink · 18/06/2026
• Church of England Pensions Board to Vote Against HSBC, NatWest, Santander Directors for Backtracking on Climate Commitments esgtoday.com · 25/03/2026
• Church of England Pensions Board to vote against climate-backtracking banks ipe.com · 24/03/2026
• Church of England Pensions Board sets out its future plans churchtimes.co.uk · 20/02/2026
• Church of England Pensions Board introduces stricter rules on defence investing ipe.com · 09/12/2025

What the charity says about itself (2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1,195 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1095 freehold); recorded price paid £146.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Church Of England Pensions Board — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 23/11/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (71% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• HAROLD CLIVE MATHERchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ANTHONY NEIL KING
• Hannah Gore-Randall
• Ian Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michaela Southworth
• Nikesh Patel
• Rev Caroline Titley
• Rev Eleanor Robertshaw
• Rev Trudie Anne Wigley · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sandra Shadrack
• Victoria Paramour
• Wendy Davis

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ENGLISH CLERGY ASSOCIATION BENEFIT FUND.

• THE ENGLISH CLERGY ASSOCIATION BENEFIT FUND income £46k
• THE CLERGY REST FUND income £27k
• THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CLERGY STIPEND TRUST income £78k
• FREE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CENTRAL TRUST income £77k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETER, WATFORD income £241k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STOKE GIFFORD income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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