THE COVENTRY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LTD

Registered charity 247828 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COVENTRY DIOCESE - DIOCESE OF COVENTRY

The activities of the Coventry Diocesan Board of Finance Limited are wide but its primary activity is to support the clergy of the Diocese through the payment of stipends, the management and maintenance of parsonages and other ministerial housing and provide training and other support to both clergy and lay people in parishes across the Diocese.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST THE WORK OBJECTS PURPOSES AND MINISTRY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN THE DIOCESE OF COVENTRY. FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE REFER TO CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF COVENTRY

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: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Coventry Diocesan Board of Finance reported a deficit of £3.3m before investment losses for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a net decrease in total funds to £97.4m. Despite the operating deficit, the charity holds unrestricted funds of £18.1m, with net current assets of £5.1m, which the trustees note is well above their stated reserves policy target of two and a half to three and a half months' operating costs. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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 00319482

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sophie Jelley — Bishop of Coventry (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.

• MASSEY, Kate Ishbel, Canon — director, appointed 01/06/2026on trustee list
• PRINCE, Alastair, Revd — director, appointed 03/02/2026on trustee list
• PEERS, Esther Louise — director, appointed 03/02/2026on trustee list
• JELLEY, Sophie Rebecca, Rt Rev — director, appointed 14/02/2025on trustee list
• HIBBERT, Richard Charles, Revd Canon — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• SAMPSON, Alicia — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• ROLLS, Andrew Edisto — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• POWELL, Christopher Thomas — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• RICH, Anthony John Edmund — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• CORLETT, Daniel James, Revd — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• RAKE, David Bernard — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• PHILLIP, Gail Ann, Revd — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• COOMBER, Stephen John — director, appointed 01/01/2024on trustee list
• MORGAN, Anita Nora Carmel, Dr — director, appointed 15/09/2023on trustee list
• COCKELL, Timothy David, Rev — director, appointed 03/07/2023on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Susan Elizabeth — director, appointed 07/09/2021on trustee list
• SEWARDS, Philip Alexander — director, appointed 01/09/2021not on trustee list
• JEE, Jonathan Noel, Reverend — director, appointed 26/08/2021on trustee list
• JACKSON, Barry James, Reverend — director, appointed 26/08/2021on trustee list
• MCARTHUR, Claire Louise, Reverend Canon — director, appointed 01/08/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

153 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (149 freehold); recorded price paid £15.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (69% 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: 6.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN JOHN COOMBERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alicia Sampson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Edisto Rolls · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthony John Edmund Rich · trustee of 3 other charities
• Canon Kate Ishbel Massey
• Christopher Thomas Powell · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Bernard Rake
• Dr Anita Nora Carmel Morgan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Esther Louise Peers
• Mary Joanna King
• PHILIP SEWARDS MA, FIOD · trustee of 2 other charities
• REVEREND JONATHAN NOEL JEE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Alastair Prince
• Rev BARRY JAMES JACKSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Claire Louise McArthur
• Rev Daniel James Corlett · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Gail Ann Phillip · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Sophie Rebecca Jelley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Timothy David Cockell
• Revd Canon Richard Charles Hibbert
• SUSAN ELIZABETH WILLIAMS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Hugh Pollard

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

Operates in: Coventry City · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• COVENTRY DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £491k
• THE EXETER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £18.8m
• ST EDMUNDSBURY AND IPSWICH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £11.1m
• THE LEICESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £10.0m
• THE CHICHESTER DIOCESAN FUND AND BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £21.6m
• GUILDFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £17.3m

Side by side with its peers

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