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.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the Diocese ran an operational deficit of £1.0m in 2024, which was substantially lower than the budgeted £2.1m, primarily due to slower-than-expected clergy recruitment. Despite this deficit, unrestricted general funds decreased from £6.7m to £5.5m, with free reserves standing at £3.8m at year-end, supported by investment gains and the retention of fixed assets.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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 (3.8%) (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 1 other charity
• Rev Canon Matthew Ivan Rhodes · 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
• Venerable David Ian Gerrard · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Doncaster · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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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 FINANCE.

• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £13.9m
• THE BATH AND WELLS DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £17.0m
• GUILDFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £15.7m
• THE NEWCASTLE DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £8.1m
• THE LICHFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £17.0m
• THE DURHAM DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £12.5m

Side by side with its peers

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