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

Objects

TO PROMOTE AID AND FURTHER, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER THE SPIRITUAL TEACHING OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bury, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus on General Unrestricted Funds of £1.971m for the year ended 31 December 2025, compared to a deficit in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves excluding fixed assets stood at £7.24m, which equates to six months' gross unrestricted expenditure, meeting the upper end of the stated reserves policy target of three to six months.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 22/12/2022, 52 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 £8.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (5,972 followers) · instagram (2,053 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~13.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (37% 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 (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• 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
• 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 THE CHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE.

• THE CHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £14.5m
• SHEFFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £12.1m
• THE MANCHESTER DISTRICT ASSOCIATION OF UNITARIAN AND FREE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES income £58k
• MANCHESTER VINEYARD income £653k
• THE NEWCASTLE DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £8.1m
• THE CHICHESTER DIOCESAN FUND AND BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £21.6m

Side by side with its peers

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