THE CHICHESTER DIOCESAN FUND AND BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED)

Registered charity 243134 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's principal activity is to promote, assist and advance the work of the Church of England in the Diocese of Chichester.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, CARRY ON, ASSIST, BENEFIT AND ADVANCE THE WORK, WHICH, IS LEGALLY CHARITABLE, OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE DIOCESE OF CHICHESTER OR ELSEWHERE, IN ALL OR ANY OF ITS BRANCHES.

Area of benefit: SUSSEX, CHICHESTER DIOCESE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit of £212k on its general funds before asset revaluations, though this was better than the budgeted deficit of £723k. Free reserves of £4.8m are reported to be within the trustees' stated policy target range of £3.0m to £6.0m, which represents two to four months of budgeted operating expenditure. The trustees consider the going concern assumption appropriate, citing sufficient liquid assets and funding availability from the national church.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00133558

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Will Hazlewood — Acting Bishop of Chichester (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DEWHURST, Russell James Edward, Ven — director, appointed 29/11/2025on trustee list
• CARPENTER, Thomas David Leonard, The Ven Dr — director, appointed 28/09/2025on trustee list
• BRADNAM, Gillian Mary — director, appointed 30/01/2025on trustee list
• NAY, Janet Christina — director, appointed 30/01/2025on trustee list
• STALLEY, Nigel Martin — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• AUTON-LLOYD, Martin Thomas — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• CRIGHTON, Andrew Charles — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• DI CASTIGLIONE, James Alexander, Reverend — director, appointed 01/01/2025not on trustee list
• HOYLES, Gary Stephen — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• SHARP, Jonathan Warden — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• MILLEST, Daniel John, Rev — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• LUMLEY, Margaret Caroline — director, appointed 14/07/2022on trustee list
• GARRATT, Helen Louise Fontana, Reverend — director, appointed 06/02/2022on trustee list
• MARTIN, Angela Frances, The Venerable — director, appointed 04/07/2021on trustee list
• BUSHYAGER, Ruth Kathleen Frances, Rt Rev — director, appointed 15/07/2020on trustee list
• HAZLEWOOD, William Peter Guy, The Right Reverend — director, appointed 15/07/2020on trustee list
• COEKIN, Philip James, The Reverend — director, appointed 01/01/2019on trustee list
• MURPHY, Amelia Dawn Zenobia — director, appointed 01/01/2019on trustee list
• STONOR, Sara Jane — director, appointed 19/01/2018not on trustee list
• DOWLER, Robert Edward Mackenzie, The Very Revd Dr — director, appointed 18/09/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

555 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (525 freehold); recorded price paid £25.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (2,936 followers) · instagram (1,634 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 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 (81% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amelia Dawn Zenobia Murphy
• Andrew Charles Crighton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Gary Stephen Hoyles · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gillian Mary Bradnam
• Janet Christina Nay
• Jonathan Warden Sharp · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARTIN THOMAS AUTON-LLOYD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Caroline Lumley
• Nigel Martin Stalley
• Rev Daniel Millest · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Helen Louise Fontana Garratt
• Rev JAMES ALEXANDER DI CASTIGLIONE
• Rev Martin Peter James King · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Philip James Coekin · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rt. Rev Ruth Kathleen Frances Bushyager · trustee of 2 other charities
• SARA JANE STONOR DL · trustee of 2 other charities
• THE VENERABLE MARTIN LLOYD-WILLIAMS · trustee of 4 other charities
• The Right Reverend William Peter Guy Hazlewood
• The Ven Dr Thomas David Leonard Carpenter
• The Ven Russell James Edward Dewhurst
• The Venerable Angela Frances Martin · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Venerable Edward Dowler · trustee of 6 other charities

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHEFFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE.

• SHEFFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £12.1m
• WINCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £14.2m
• CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL RESTORATION AND DEVELOPMENT TRUST CIO income £1.4m
• THE LONDON DIOCESAN FUND income £47.0m
• THE LICHFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £17.7m
• GUILDFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £17.3m

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