THE BIRMINGHAM DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 249403 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE BDBF AIMS TO PROMOTE, FACILITATE AND ASSIST WITH THE WORK AND PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE DIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £290,000 for the year, which was covered by Diocesan Investment Programme funding from the National Church. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £4,455,000 exceed the stated policy target of £3,051,000, and they are satisfied that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Rt Revd Dr Michael Volland — Bishop of Birmingham (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)

54 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (51 freehold); recorded price paid £4.0m. 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 ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (87% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Steven Murray Skakelchair
• Anesu Mayambi
• Christine Price
• DEIRDRE ROWENA MARY MOLL
• Dr Chisom Eliakim-Ikechukwu
• Emma Faith King
• Guy Hordern
• Ian James Thorley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Russell Butler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matt Thompson · trustee of 6 other charities
• Matthew James Vaughan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas John Forknell
• Paul Leonard Martin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Bamidele Sotonwa
• Rev Esther Tamisa Prior
• Rev Geoffrey Lanham
• Rev Jane Louise Claridge Shaw
• Rev Katherine Stock
• Rev Phelim Sean O'Hare · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Rebekah Amy Clark · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev SARAH HAYES · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Toby Nicholas Crowe · trustee of 3 other charities
• The Rt Revd Dr Michael Volland · trustee of 1 other charity
• Venerable Jennifer Clare Tomlinson · trustee of 3 other charities
• jonathan Goll

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Sandwell · Solihull · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BIRMINGHAM DIOCESAN TRUST.

• BIRMINGHAM DIOCESAN TRUST income £24.2m
• THE DERBY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £11.0m
• THE DURHAM DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £12.5m
• THE BRISTOL DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £9.5m
• THE GLOUCESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £24.8m
• MANCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £14.5m

Side by side with its peers

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