PORTSMOUTH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 249256 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Church of England

Objects

TO PROMOTE, AID AND FURTHER THE WORK AND PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE DIOCESE OF PORTSMOUTH.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF PORTSMOUTH

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

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

Registered contact address: Portsmouth, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £1,349k for the year, driven by inflationary pressures and structural deficits in the diocese. However, the overall surplus after asset revaluations was £1,841k, and the trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with adequate resources 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 UK LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Bishop Jonathan — Bishop of Portsmouth (source)
• Philip Poulter — Diocesan Secretary (source)
• Emily Hassan — Head of Safeguarding (DSO) (source)
• Elaine Coe — Head of Finance (source)
• Jeff Williams — Diocesan Director of Education (source)
• Rev Andrew Hargreaves — Director of Ministry and Discipleship (source)
• Canon Nick Ralph — Executive Director, Council for Social Responsibility (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)

238 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (230 freehold); recorded price paid £6.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~112.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (77% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Right Revd Jonathan Hugh Frostchair
• Adrian Jordan
• Amy Victoria Adeniran
• Barry Dugmore
• CANON DEBBIE SUTTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Canon Lucy Docherty
• Coleen Rachel Jackson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin Charles Andrew How
• Neil Roy Chrimes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Oyinlolu Alonge
• Peter John Gywnn
• Philip Poulter
• REV ROBERT CHARLES WHITE · trustee of 6 other charities
• Rev David Morgan
• Rev James Hunt
• Rev Kathryn Percival · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Ray Driscoll
• Simon Lemieux · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steven Smart · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Very Revd D Anthony Cane

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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Side by side with its peers

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