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 FY2021 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves stood at £9.8 million, which is significantly higher than the charity's stated policy target of 25% to 30% of annual budgeted expenditure. The trustees consider the current level of reserves prudent given economic uncertainty, and the independent auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties related to going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2021 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming LLP. Discloses 3 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; 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

• GILES RICHARD FRAMPTONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• CLARE WINIFRED LILLINGTON · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Nigel Price · trustee of 3 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 Jane Judith Bakker · trustee of 2 other charities
• 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
• STEPHEN ANTHONY GEORGE MACEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• 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 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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Government & lottery funding

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