SHEFFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 245861 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIOCESE OF SHEFFIELD, THE SHEFFIELD DIOCESAN TRUST AND BOARD OF FINANCE

To promote, facilitate and assist with the work and purposes of the Church of England for the advancement of the Christian faith and other charitable work in the Diocese of Sheffield or its successor diocese and elsewhere.

Objects

TO ASSIST AND PROMOTE THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE DIOCESE OF SHEFFIELD.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF SHEFFIELD

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: Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Diocese reported a net deficit of £1.1m for the year ended 31 December 2025, which was substantially less than the originally budgeted deficit of £2.0m. Unrestricted general funds increased to £6.0m, supported by £1.2m in transfers between funds and £1m in transition support from the Archbishops' Council. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

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 16/11/2023, 16 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rt Revd Dr Pete Wilcox — Bishop of Sheffield (source)
• Rt Revd Leah Vasey-Saunders — Bishop of Doncaster (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)

219 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (209 freehold); recorded price paid £6.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 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 (86% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Rose De Castro · trustee of 1 other charity
• Canon IAN GEOFFREY WALKER · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr JACQUELINE ANNE BUTCHER
• Isobel Julia Newton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Macdonald · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neill Andrew Birchenall
• PETER RAINFORD
• RT REVD DR PETER JONATHAN WILCOX · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Benjamin Michael Tanner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Canon CLAIRE LOUISE DAWSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Canon Matthew Ivan Rhodes · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev David Ian Gerrard · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Edward John Scott Morrison
• Rev Javaid Iqbal · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Leah Beverley Vasey-Saunders
• The Very Revd Abigail Laura Thompson · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Doncaster · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 CHICHESTER DIOCESAN FUND AND BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED).

• THE CHICHESTER DIOCESAN FUND AND BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £21.6m
• THE LICHFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £17.7m
• ST EDMUNDSBURY AND IPSWICH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £11.1m
• CHURCH BURGESSES TRUST income £2.0m
• THE HEREFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £6.0m
• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £14.7m

Side by side with its peers

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