THE LONDON DIOCESAN FUND

Registered charity 241083 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141191032 · also known as LDF

The principal activity of the London Diocesan Fund is to serve and support the parishes and people within the Diocese of London in their mission of proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ. It does this operationally through the payment and housing of parish clergy and chaplaincies and support to their ministry.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST THE WORK AND OBJECTS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN THE DIOCESE OF LONDON.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF LONDON

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: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £7.8m for the year ended 31 December 2025, an increase from £4.2m in the prior year, driven by total expenditure rising to £54.8m against income of £47.0m. Despite this structural deficit, the charity holds net assets of £520.3m, with unrestricted general reserves of £5.4m, which the trustees consider appropriate given ongoing economic uncertainty. The trustees have indicated that a new financial plan will be developed in 2026 to address the structural deficit and ensure long-term sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Diocese of London (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

891 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (792 freehold); recorded price paid £89.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (7,214 followers) · instagram (4,009 followers)

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.

• Director of Safeguarding — £100,786 per year · Westminster (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• Ministry Team Area Administrator — £12,987 (FTE £32,469) · London (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter 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: 3.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rt Revd Dr Emma Gwynneth Inesonchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• ARCHDEACON OF LONDON · trustee of 9 other charities
• Ademola Adebajo · trustee of 3 other charities
• Archdeacon of Hampstead · trustee of 1 other charity
• BISHOP OF FULHAM · trustee of 8 other charities
• Brian William O'Donoghue · trustee of 6 other charities
• CLIVE RICHARD SCOWEN · trustee of 6 other charities
• DAVID CHARLES JOHN BANKS · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr CHRISTOPHER ROY MASON WARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Duncan McAndrew · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr PHILLIP RICE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Elizabeth Anne Curran · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOSILE WENUS ALEXANDRA MUNRO · trustee of 2 other charities
• JULIAN MARK ROBERT DESBOROUGH · trustee of 3 other charities
• Jacqueline Driver · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jonathan Edward Bayliss · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jonathan Wolstenholme · trustee of 1 other charity
• MRS S TETT · trustee of 4 other charities
• Mervyn Ivor James Hogg · trustee of 1 other charity
• Miss A Mclntyre
• Mr D Hurst · trustee of 2 other charities
• Nathan van Sittert · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter Sinclair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Prebendary Mrs Monica Constancia Bolley · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Aidan Dominic Bartlett · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev CHRISTOPHER TRUNDLE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev MICHAEL ROBERT JOHN NEVILLE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Thomas Cecil William Wright · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Thomas Watts · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robin Anthony Field-Smith · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rt Revd Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rt Revd Roderick Ernest Alexander Green · trustee of 1 other charity
• SARAH ROSEMARY ANN FINCH · trustee of 4 other charities
• Stephen Garside · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Mary Johnson · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Revd G Hunter
• The Revd Ian Nigel Chandler · trustee of 3 other charities
• The Rt Revd Dr Anderson Harris Mithra Jeremiah · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Venerable Katherine Jane Hedderly · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Venerable Peter James Farley-Moore · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Angola · Mozambique · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHICHESTER DIOCESAN FUND AND BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED).

• THE CHICHESTER DIOCESAN FUND AND BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £21.6m
• THE LINCOLN DIOCESAN TRUST AND BOARD OF FINANCE LTD income £11.1m
• THE LEICESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £10.0m
• GUILDFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £17.3m
• THE DURHAM DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £12.5m
• THE LONDON CITY MISSION income £8.4m

Side by side with its peers

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