THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 240833 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SALISBURY D B F

To promote and assist the work and purposes of the Church of England in the Diocese of Salisbury. This is achieved principally through the provision and support of ministry across the 459 parishes of the Diocese. The Board also provides advice, training and resources to clergy, laity and parishes all to support the life of the Church and the advancement of Christ's Kingdom.

Objects

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN THE DIOCESE OF SALISBURY.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF SALISBURY

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a structural operating deficit of £1.4m and an overall net deficit of £1.1m for the year, driven by Parish Share income falling below budget and weaker investment performance. While unrestricted general reserves increased to £3.4m, the trustees identify medium-to-long-term financial viability as the most significant risk, warning that unrestricted funds could be exhausted within five years without strategic changes to income and expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 03/11/2023, 3 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Salisbury DBF (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Pain — Diocesan Secretary and Chief Executive Officer (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

461 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (444 freehold); recorded price paid £15.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Head of Governance and Legal — Up to £59,389 per year, depending on experience · Salisbury, Wiltshire (Hybrid) · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 21/10/2026)

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (76% 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: 2.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cedric Pierce · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Elliott
• Elizabeth Jane McCormick
• Keith Leslie
• Kevin Bostick
• LADY SARAH Diana Rowena Perceval GOOCH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Christopher Beaumont · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Lucinda Holt
• Rev Michael Keirle
• Rev Stephanie Stevens
• Rev Timothy Barker
• Richard Ogilvie Merlot Chitty · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rosemary Macdonald
• Rt Revd Stephen David Lake
• Simon Vandeleur · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Revd Canon Gerald Edward Richard Osborne · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Rt Rev Karen Marisa Gorham
• The Ven Emma Louise Ellis · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Ven Penelope Sayer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Trudi Shaw · trustee of 2 other charities
• Very Rev'd Nicholas Charles Papadopulos · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Dorset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION.

• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £2.0m
• SHEFFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £12.1m
• THE BLACKBURN DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £18.4m
• ST MARY'S FUND, SALISBURY income £64k
• THE LIVERPOOL DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £14.6m
• ST EDMUNDSBURY AND IPSWICH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £11.1m

Side by side with its peers

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