THE LINCOLN DIOCESAN TRUST AND BOARD OF FINANCE LTD

Registered charity 249355 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objectives of the Trust can be summarised as being to support the development of a growing, worshipping, celebrating, proclaiming Christian presence in each community of the Diocese and to support projects and enterprises consonant with that purpose.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit on its general fund of £2.5m for the year ended 31 December 2024, consistent with the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves of £1.3m remain below the stated policy target of £3.0m, a shortfall the trustees acknowledge is insufficient to cover ministry costs without utilizing total return from endowment funds.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

632 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (623 freehold); recorded price paid £5.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (50% 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: 3.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Mary Warrick · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Cowell
• David Thomas Wright
• James Drinnan Thom Tannock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel Bacon · trustee of 2 other charities
• PAUL DAVID BREWSTER · trustee of 7 other charities
• Paul Davie
• Philip David Day
• RUTH BREWIN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Julie Donn
• Rev Pauline Dahlia Cummins
• Rev Rachel Heskins
• Revd Canon Dr Martyn Andrew Nicholas Taylor · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rt Revd Jean Ann Burgess · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Matthew Jones · trustee of 4 other charities
• Susan Barbara Elizabeth Watt · trustee of 3 other charities
• The Revd Canon Sudharshan Sarvananthan · trustee of 6 other charities
• The Rt Revd Dr Nicholas Alan Chamberlain · trustee of 3 other charities
• The Ven Gavin John Kirk · trustee of 3 other charities
• The Venerable Eleanor Elizabeth Mary Robertshaw · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire · North East Lincolnshire · North Lincolnshire

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 LINCOLN ST SWITHIN.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF LINCOLN ST SWITHIN income £268k
• THE DERBY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £11.0m
• THE PARTNERSHIP TRUST income £206k
• THE DURHAM DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £12.5m
• THE LICHFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £17.0m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH DORE income £403k

Side by side with its peers

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