THE CHELMSFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 249505 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CHELMSFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED, THE DIOCESE OF CHELMSFORD

1. Mission & Ministry in the Parishes - paying clergy stipends incl pension contribs, providing & maintaining houses for clergy & training clergy & other parish officers.2. Education - providing support for head teachers & governors, facilitating capital expenditure on schools & sponsoring certain schools with Academy status.3.Contributions to NCIs4. Provision of the Diocesan Retreat House

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net deficit of £2.8m for the year, though this was an improvement on the previous year's £4.6m deficit. The trustees report that free general reserves of £4.5m are below the stated policy target of £5.3m, but consider the charity has sufficient resources to meet its day-to-day operational needs for the foreseeable future.

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.

Charity Commission inquiry

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rt Revd Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani — Bishop of Chelmsford (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)

708 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (670 freehold); recorded price paid £27.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 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 (78% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JEFFREY STEPHEN PETER MUSHENSchair
• Adrian James Smith · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andrew Simon Holt
• Antony George Patrick Timmins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Canon ROBERT IAN HAMMOND
• Duraisamy Daniel Jebanesan
• Florence Conaty
• HAZEL THOMAS · trustee of 1 other charity
• JULIA THOMAS · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Charles Shakeshaft · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Goodwin Blackford Tipping
• MARY CAROLINE DURLACHER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Carnelley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev James Bernard Gilder · trustee of 1 other charity
• Revd Canon Nicholas Edward Rowan
• Revd Dr Christian Okeke
• Right Reverend Adam Atkinson
• Rt Rev Roger Anthony Brett Morris · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rt Revd Dr Gulnar Eleanor Francis-Dehqani · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rt Revd Lynne Susan Cullens · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Ven Dr Susan Joyce Lucas · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Ven Jonathan Croucher · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Venerable Christopher Mark Burke · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Venerable Kate Peacock · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Venerable Ruth Janet Patten · trustee of 3 other charities
• The Very Revd Dr Jessica Martin
• Venerable Michael Power
• Vevet Deer
• Wilhelmina Joan Goulbourn

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · Essex · Havering · Newham · Redbridge · Southend-on-sea · Suffolk · Thurrock · Waltham Forest

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.

• Rt Rev Roger Anthony Brett Morris — trustee here and at HOCKERILL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

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 COVENTRY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LTD.

• THE COVENTRY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LTD income £11.0m
• THE CHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £15.0m
• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £13.9m
• THE LIVERPOOL DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £15.8m
• ST EDMUNDSBURY AND IPSWICH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £10.1m
• GUILDFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £15.7m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.