THE EXETER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 249798 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EDBF

The Board acts as financial executive of the Diocesan Synod to promote the activities of the Church of England in the Diocese of Exeter. The Board also acts as Custodian Trustee for parochial, educational and other trusts within the Diocese.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net operating deficit of £2.0m for the year ended 31 December 2024, following a deficit of £2.0m in the prior year. The trustees note that the charity has substantial reserves, with unrestricted and undesignated reserves amounting to £6.4m, which they consider sufficient to meet the budgeted deficit and cover short-term liabilities despite the underlying financial challenges.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rt. Rev’d Dr Mike Harrison — Bishop of Exeter (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)

671 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (655 freehold); recorded price paid £11.2m. 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 ~4.3 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 (69% 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GILES RICHARD FRAMPTONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• CLARE WINIFRED LILLINGTON · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Nigel Price · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr Jenefer Golding
• Dr Lystra Hagley-Dickinson
• Graham Edward Dunn
• Laura Ford · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL STUART JEFFERIES
• Nicholas Alexander Courtman
• ROBERT JOHN MILLS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Andrew Nigel Thomas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Benjamin James Williams
• Rev Deborah Jane Angela Leighton Plom
• Rev MICHAEL JOHN PARTRIDGE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Peter John March · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Rosemary Elizabeth Austin
• Rev Tanya Hockley-Still · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Oliver Buzzacott
• Rt Revd James Emerson Grier · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rt Reverend Moira Anne Elizabeth Astin · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sian Mary Walker-McAllister · trustee of 1 other charity
• THE VENERABLE DOUGLAS JAMES DETTMER
• The Rt Revd Dr Michael Robert Harrison · trustee of 6 other charities
• The Ven Jane Judith Bakker · trustee of 3 other charities
• The Venerable Andrew Mark Beane · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Venerable Verena Breed · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Devon · Plymouth City · Torbay

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE DURHAM DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £12.5m
• THE ELY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £11.1m
• THE LICHFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £17.0m
• CANTERBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £12.5m
• THE NEWCASTLE DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £8.1m
• THE BATH AND WELLS DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £17.0m

Side by side with its peers

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