WINCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 249276 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

SUPPORTING THE MINISTRY IN, AND THE MISSION OF, CHURCH OF ENGLAND PARISHES IN THE DIOCESE OF WINCHESTER

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall deficit of £2.79m for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets to £183.5m. The Trustees consider that free reserves of £6.5m are within the agreed policy range of 3 to 6 months of budgeted unrestricted expenditure. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

427 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (397 freehold); recorded price paid £8.5m. 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 ~34.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (79% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/11/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALASTAIR BARRON
• David Robert Stanley Collier
• Dr Richard Marcus Roope · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elspeth Mackeggie Gurney · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gillian Margaret Gray Knight
• Ian Robert Dighe
• Kelly Anne Betteridge
• Madeleine Julie Hedley
• Rev Angela Smith · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Rhiannon Elizabeth King
• Rev Sarah Elizabeth Yetman · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Bishop Of Winchester
• The Reverend Andrew Mark Micklefield
• The Venerable Simon Richard Butler
• The Very Reverend Christopher John Ingamells Palmer · trustee of 3 other charities
• Venerable Dr Gemma Michelle Hope Foster

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

Operates in: Burma · Burundi · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Dorset · Hampshire · Rwanda · Southampton City · Uganda

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 ST MATTHEW, WINCHESTER.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MATTHEW, WINCHESTER income £686k
• THE DERBY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £11.0m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF WINCHESTER ST LAWRENCE WITH ST SWITHUN-UPON-KINGSGATE income £177k
• THE PETERBOROUGH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £10.0m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST BARNABAS, WINCHESTER income £199k
• PORTSMOUTH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £9.4m

Side by side with its peers

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