THE ELY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 245456 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote, facilitate and assist with the work and purposes of the Church of England, for the advancement of the Christian faith in the Diocese of Ely and elsewhere.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves increased to £197.8m, with unrestricted reserves at £33m. However, the trustees note that actual free reserves were £4.8m, which is slightly lower than the minimum required level of £5.6m determined by their reserves policy. The trustees expect reserves to align with the required level in the future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 6 (FY2023) → 10 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Ely Diocesan Board Of Finance (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Growing Faith Foundation — “We Hear You has been released for 2025 by the Growing Faith Foundation, in conjunction with the 30k Project.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

345 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (332 freehold); recorded price paid £15.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (62% 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: 5.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Canon Dr Mary Felicity Cooke · trustee of 2 other charities
• Canon Francis William Miles Burkitt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Canon Simon John Kershaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Denis Anton Falvey
• Christopher Jeffrey Jonathan Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher John Townsend · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr CHRISTOPHER ANDREW STANFORD-BEALE
• Dr Jonathan Paul Chaplin
• Elain Margaret Levitt
• Felicity Ann Watson
• Janet Rosemary Perrett
• John Pigott
• Lindsay Jane Davies
• REV DANIEL JOHN DRIVER
• Rev Canon Robert Mackley
• Rev Daniel John Driver · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Dr Elizabeth Ruth Cope · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev NEIL JAMES BLANDFORD-BAKER · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Natalie Janis Andrews
• Rev Philip Michael Howson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Richard Harlow · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Sarah Catherine Gower · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sarah Margaret Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Norfolk

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £13.9m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CAMBRIDGE ST. BARNABAS income £442k
• THE NORWICH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £13.4m
• THE EXETER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £18.8m
• MANCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £14.5m
• THE LICHFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £17.0m

Side by side with its peers

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