THE ST ALBANS DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 248887 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST ALBANS D B F, THE ST ALBAN'S DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

To promote, aid and further the work of the Church of England in the St Albans Diocese.Under Living Gods Love, which was launched in January 2011, the St Albans DBF; deploys the clergy, pays stipends and provides housing for stipendiary clergy; recruits and trains the clergy and readers; offers advice on places of worship; promotes parochial stewardship; develops youth work; promotes RE.

Causes: Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net increase in funds of £2.9 million for the year, driven largely by sales from its trading subsidiary, Linmere. The Board maintains a healthy financial position with free unrestricted reserves of £5.3 million, which aligns with its stated policy target of maintaining between eight and sixteen weeks of expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00145227

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.

• RUMSEY, Andrew Paul, The Right Reverend Dr — director, appointed 09/06/2026not on trustee list
• FORREST, Sarah Louise, The Reverend Dr — director, appointed 20/01/2026on trustee list
• SNELL, Thomas John — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• SIVYER, Emma Claire — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• STEWART, James Watson — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• SPRING, Louis Cyril, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• KILGOUR, Christopher Richard Hargrave, The Reverend — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• GEORGE, Tolulope Ademuyiwa, The Reverend — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• COULSON, Timothy John, Dr — director, appointed 01/11/2023not on trustee list
• HOOKWAY, John Leonard Walter, Rev — director, appointed 20/10/2023on trustee list
• THOMAS, Andrew John, Reverend — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• DAVID, Kaushal, Reverend — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• HUDSON, Charles Edward Cameron, Reverend Canon — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Edward David — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• BROWN, Andrew Charles — director, appointed 11/03/2020on trustee list
• MIDDLEBROOK, David John, Archdeacon — director, appointed 30/03/2019on trustee list
• CHALLIS, Nigel Kenneth — director, appointed 01/01/2019on trustee list
• BUTCHER, Mary Eryl — director, appointed 01/01/2019on trustee list
• MACKENZIE, Janet, Venerable — director, appointed 06/09/2016not on trustee list
• LINDLEY, Philip Richard — director, appointed 01/01/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

668 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (637 freehold); recorded price paid £17.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~19.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (38% 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: 27.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/02/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Charles Brown · trustee of 2 other charities
• Archdeacon David John Middlebrook · trustee of 4 other charities
• DR D W DALLINGER
• Dr Louis Cyril Spring · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward DAVID Roberts
• Emma Claire Sivyer
• James Watson Stewart
• Mary Eryl Butcher · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel Kenneth Challis
• Philip Richard Lindley · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Andrew John Thomas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev CHARLES EDWARD CAMERON HUDSON
• Rev Christopher Richard Hargrave Kilgour · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev John Leonard Walter Hookway · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Kaushal David · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Tolulope Ademuyiwa George
• Revd Dr Sarah Louise Forrest · trustee of 1 other charity
• THE VENERABLE J MACKENZIE, THE ARCHDEACON OF HERTFORD · trustee of 6 other charities
• Thomas John Snell
• Thomas Richard Nettleton Otley · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Barnet · Bedford · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire · Luton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 CHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE.

• THE CHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £15.0m
• THE COVENTRY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LTD income £11.0m
• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £13.9m
• THE LIVERPOOL DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £15.8m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETER'S, ST ALBANS income £689k
• THE NORWICH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £13.4m

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