THE LEICESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 249100 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The activities of Leicester Diocese 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 other facilities and resources in support of the ministry of both clergy and lay people across the Diocese.

Causes: Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Diocese experienced an operating deficit of £1.73m for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by structural costs that exceed income. Per the trustees' report, the Diocese holds unrestricted free reserves of £8.26m, which exceeds the stated policy target of three months' budgeted expenditure, providing a buffer against the anticipated deficits until a balanced budget is targeted for 2028.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jonathan Kerry — Diocesan Secretary (source)
• Andy Brockbank — Director of Operations and Governance (source)
• Simon Wilson — Director of Finance (source)
• Carolyn Shoyer — Director of Education (source)
• Revd Dr Stuart Burns — Director of Parish Transition and Ministry Development Team (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)

225 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (222 freehold); recorded price paid £8.2m. 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 ~8.7 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 (63% 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/09/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/09/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David John Palmerchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ann Margaret Greenwood
• Dr Stephen Mark Gorton
• RT REVD MARTYN JAMES SNOW · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Jitesh Krisnakant Patel
• Rev Stephen Andrew Bailey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Right Reverend Malayil Lukose Varghese Muthalaly
• Sadie Estella Batstone
• Stephen Mark Adshead · trustee of 1 other charity
• THE VENERABLE Claire Wood · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Very Reverend Karen Sheila Frances Rooms
• Venerable Richard John Trethewey · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE COVENTRY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LTD income £11.0m
• THE LIVERPOOL DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £15.8m
• THE CHELMSFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £23.0m
• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £13.9m
• THE CHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £15.0m
• THE LONDON DIOCESAN FUND income £47.0m

Side by side with its peers

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