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.

Objects

The Objects for which the DBF is established are:To promote, aid, and further the objects and work of the Church of England as at present constituted or as hereafter it may be constituted, and more particularly in the Diocese of Leicester (hereinafter called ?the Diocese?) for that purpose to do and carry out or assist in doing or carrying out all such matters and things as are likely to promote or help any of the said objects or work, and in particular to assist by grants, subscriptions, or payments of money or otherwise all or any of the following departments of work:- Training for the ministry and work of such Church.- Maintenance of the clergy and other persons connected with the ministry and work of such Church.- Provisions of pensions for and the support, assistance, and benefit of ministers, teachers, and workers of such Church, and of persons who have previously held any such positions, and, where such persons are deceased, their surviving partners, spouses, descendants and dependents.- Purchase, improvement and repair of houses for such clergy and other persons connected with the ministry and work of such Church.- The provision of sites for and the erection, purchase, equipment, endowment, maintenance, insurance, enlargement, alteration, and repair of churches, chapels, churchyards, burial grounds, and of buildings of all kinds, with or without gardens, or other grounds, used or to be used for the purposes of or in connection with any work of such Church.- Education of the young, and in particular their religious education.- Provision for the Cathedral.- The expenses of any organisation or work carried on wholly or partially by the DBF or by the Central Board of Finances for the Church of England. With such additions to the departments aforesaid as from time to time may be expedient for the furthering of the work and influence of such Church.To promote, aid, and further (in such matter as may be approved and sanctioned by the Bishop for the time being) the objects and work of any mission, church, or body of Christians in communion with the Church of England in any part of the world.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF LEICESTER

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Leicester, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 (3.7%) (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 LONDON DIOCESAN FUND.

• THE LONDON DIOCESAN FUND income £47.0m
• THE LICHFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £17.7m
• THE COVENTRY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LTD income £9.8m
• THE CHICHESTER DIOCESAN FUND AND BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £21.6m
• THE LIVERPOOL DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £14.6m
• THE CHELMSFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £23.0m

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