PORTSMOUTH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 249256 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Church of England

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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.

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)

237 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (229 freehold); recorded price paid £6.0m. 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 ~112.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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 2 other charities
• 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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH PENNINGTON (MANCHESTER DIOCESE).

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH PENNINGTON (MANCHESTER DIOCESE) income £214k
• THE PETERBOROUGH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £10.0m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STOKE GIFFORD income £1.8m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BRIDPORT income £370k
• Newport and Carisbrooke PCC income £648k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARTIN CAMBERLEY income £113k

Side by side with its peers

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