THE DERBY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED

Registered charity 249767 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Board of Finance resources the Christian tasks of mission and ministry through parishes and other networks.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £1.0 million for the year, driven by a net investment loss of £0.9 million and an operational deficit before investment gains of £93,308. Despite this, the charity maintains free unrestricted reserves of £4.56 million, which is above its stated policy target of three months of budgeted operational expenditure (£2.39 million).

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Derby Diocesan Board of Finance Limited (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Venerable Matthew Trick — Dean of Guernsey (source)
• Bishop Jackie — Acting Bishop of Derby (source)
• Libby Lane — Bishop of Derby (source)
• Malcolm Macnaughton — Bishop of Repton (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)

254 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (250 freehold); recorded price paid £9.5m. 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 ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (54% 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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRIAN ARTHUR PARKER
• Canon Christine Mary Holmes-Elener · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christine Elizabeth McMullen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emily Brailsford · trustee of 2 other charities
• Emma Caroline Sykes
• FREDERICK JOHN GASCOYNE · trustee of 1 other charity
• IVOR PATRICK ANTHONY LEIGH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jacqueline Ann Searle
• Louisa Jane Wass Griffiths
• MR J COOPER
• MR M J TITTERTON · trustee of 4 other charities
• Madelaine Thomas-Goddard
• Peter Anthony Kelsey
• REVEREND DOCTOR JAMES THOMAS HUGHES · trustee of 8 other charities
• Rev Bryony Ruthellen Taylor · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Daniel Benedict Cooke
• Rev Sarah Louise Watson · trustee of 1 other charity
• THE RT REVD ELIZABETH JANE HOLDEN LANE · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Honourable David Piers Carlis Legh
• The Reverend Doctor Jason David Ward · trustee of 4 other charities
• The Reverend Doctor Nicola Mary McNally
• The Venerable Matthew Trick
• The Venerable Nicola Jane Fenton
• The Very Reverend Dr Peter Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Derby City · Derbyshire · Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WINCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE.

• WINCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £14.2m
• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £13.9m
• THE HEREFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £6.0m
• THE LICHFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £17.0m
• ST EDMUNDSBURY AND IPSWICH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £10.1m
• THE DURHAM DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £12.5m

Side by side with its peers

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