MANCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 249424 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

MANCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE AIMS TO PROMOTE, FACILITATE ADN ASSIST WITH THE WORK AND PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER AND ELSEWHERE

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit on General Unrestricted Funds of £0.849m, resulting in closing unrestricted reserves of £16.709m. Per the trustees' report, these reserves equate to just over 14 months' gross unrestricted expenditure, which is above the stated policy target of three to six months. The charity confirmed it is able to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Right Reverend Dr David Walker — Bishop of Manchester (source)
• The Right Reverend Dr Matthew Porter — Bishop of Bolton (source)
• The Venerable Karen Best — Archdeacon of Manchester (source)
• The Venerable Simon Cook — Archdeacon of Salford and Bolton (source)
• The Venerable Karen Smeeton — Archdeacon of Rochdale (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)

207 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (168 freehold); recorded price paid £8.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~12.9 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 (39% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/05/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrea Pollock
• Archdeacon Karen Belinda Best · trustee of 1 other charity
• Canon John Walsh · trustee of 5 other charities
• Dr Louise Ruth Smail · trustee of 1 other charity
• JEFFREY NORMAN DUNKERLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jessica Leaf
• KEITH LEWIS · trustee of 1 other charity
• PHILIP GELDARD
• Philip Billson
• RT REV DAVID STUART WALKER · trustee of 7 other charities
• Rev Amy Elizabeth Sheridan
• Rev Andrew Ian Salmon · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Grace Ruth Elizabeth Thomas · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Kathreen Shahbaz
• Rev Paul Hutchins · trustee of 4 other charities
• Richard Molyneux Lewis · trustee of 4 other charities
• Solomon John
• THE VERY REVEREND ROGERS MORGAN GOVENDER
• The Right Reverend Mark Davies · trustee of 5 other charities
• The Rt Revd Dr Mathew James Porter
• The Venerable Simon David James Cook
• Venerable Karen Louise Smeeton · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wigan

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MANCHESTER DIOCESAN CHURCH OF ENGLAND COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL AID.

• MANCHESTER DIOCESAN CHURCH OF ENGLAND COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL AID income £142k
• MANCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £804k
• THE ELY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £11.1m
• REVELATION CHURCH MANCHESTER income £217k
• THE CATHEDRAL AND COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST DENYS AND ST GEORGE IN MANCHESTER income £1.9m
• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £13.9m

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