THE NORWICH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED

Registered charity 249318 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIOCESE OF NORWICH, THE MRS R J COLMAN TRUST

Norwich Diocesan Board of Finance Limited was set up to promote, facilitate and assist with the work of the Church of England for the advancement of the Christian faith in the Diocese of Norwich and elsewhere, providing resources for Ministry and Mission.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £77k for the year, which the trustees consider satisfactory given the context of rising costs and clergy vacancies. Free reserves stood at £6.3 million, exceeding the trustees' recommended policy target of approximately £4 million, providing a buffer against financial volatility.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lovewell Blake LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00088175
• Trading subsidiary: SPIRE SUPPORT SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 07640245
• Trading subsidiary: NDBF EASTON LIMITED Companies House 08978228
• Trading subsidiary: NORWICH GLEBE PROPERTY LIMITED Companies House 10029436

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Graham Usher — Bishop of Norwich (source)
• Jane — Bishop (source)
• Ian — Bishop (source)
• Catherine — Archdeacon (source)
• Keith — Archdeacon (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Clergy Support Trust — “The Clergy Support Trust is the leading grant-making charity helping Anglican clergy and their families in times of need.” (source page)
• Edward Storey Foundation — “You may be eligible for financial support. Your BV can help you with this or you can call direct to Clergy Support Trust https://www.clergys…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LITTLE, Mark Richard — director, appointed 10/07/2026on trustee list
• WILKINS, Graham Paul, Revd — director, appointed 31/03/2025not on trustee list
• HUTTON, Caroline — director, appointed 09/01/2025not on trustee list
• BISHOP, Ian Gregory, The Rt Revd — director, appointed 29/09/2023on trustee list
• HOWE, Catherine — director, appointed 13/07/2023on trustee list
• BRADDOCK, Andrew Jonathan, Very Reverend Dr — director, appointed 28/01/2023on trustee list
• DOBSON, Catherine, The Ven — director, appointed 01/10/2022on trustee list
• JAMES, Keith Nicholas, The Ven — director, appointed 04/04/2022on trustee list
• PRICE, Matthew James, Revd — director, appointed 06/10/2021not on trustee list
• CRACKNELL, Paul Jonathan — director, appointed 06/10/2021on trustee list
• EDGECOMBE, Virginia Clare — director, appointed 06/10/2021on trustee list
• STEEN, Jane Elizabeth, The Rt Revd Dr — director, appointed 06/10/2021on trustee list
• JEFFRIES, Mark — director, appointed 20/02/2021on trustee list
• RICHMOND, Patrick, Revd Dr — director, appointed 16/12/2019on trustee list
• USHER, Graham, The Rt.Reverend. — director, appointed 17/06/2019on trustee list
• KAMMOUN, Kandara Rachelle — director, appointed 15/10/2018on trustee list
• STOKES, Simon Colin, Rev'D Canon — director, appointed 09/02/2016on trustee list
• ROBSON, Angela Shireen — director, appointed 21/10/2014on trustee list
• BETTS, Steven James, The Venerable — director, appointed 01/08/2003on trustee list
• SWEETING, Tim — secretary, appointed 06/09/2021

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

873 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (861 freehold); recorded price paid £16.4m. 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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 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 (70% 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: 5.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Jeffrieschair
• Angela Shireen Robson
• Catherine Howe
• Kandara Rachelle KAMMOUN
• Mark Allbrook
• Mark Richard Little
• Paul Cracknell
• Rev Matthew James Price BEM · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Simon Stokes · trustee of 6 other charities
• Rev Stephen Thorp
• Revd. Dr. Patrick Richmond
• Rt Revd Graham Usher · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Gail Martin
• The Rt Revd Dr Jane Steen · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Rt Revd Ian Bishop
• The Ven Catherine Dobson
• The Ven Keith James · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Ven STEVEN JAMES BETTS · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Very Revd Andrew Braddock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thompson Zulu
• Virginia Edgecombe

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

Operates in: Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• The Ven STEVEN JAMES BETTS — trustee here and at ANNE FRENCH MEMORIAL TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £13.9m
• THE ELY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £11.1m
• THE NEWCASTLE DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £8.1m
• THE DERBY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £11.0m
• THE LIVERPOOL DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £15.8m
• THE BLACKBURN DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £15.9m

Side by side with its peers

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