CANTERBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 249972 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Board of Finance is the registered company of the Diocese of Canterbury to manage its financial affairs and hold its assets.The Diocese of Canterbury consists of the parishes of East Kent whose object is the promotion of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the doctrines and practices of the Church of England.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST THE WORK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN THE DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY

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: Canterbury, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased by £739k to £104.9m, driven by a net loss on investments and revaluation losses on tangible fixed assets. General reserves of £5.5m remain well above the stated policy target of £1.9m to £2.2m, and the Trustees conclude there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 6 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 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
• Volunteer management

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00145650

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Rt Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin — Bishop of Dover (source)
• The Most Reverend Sarah Mullally — The Archbishop of Canterbury (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DARKINS, Michael David William — director, appointed 01/06/2026on trustee list
• ANDREWS, Judith Ann — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• TILLOTSON, Simon, Revd — director, appointed 31/12/2024on trustee list
• RICHTER, Anthony Kenneth — director, appointed 31/01/2024on trustee list
• BOUCHERAT, Amanda Elizabeth Ann — director, appointed 07/10/2023on trustee list
• ADAM, William Jonathan, Ven — director, appointed 18/06/2022on trustee list
• DICKINSON, Gareth Lee, Revd — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• HUDSON-WILKIN, Rose Josephine, Rev — director, appointed 30/11/2019on trustee list
• LAST, Estella Ruth, Reverend — director, appointed 06/02/2019on trustee list
• MOSS, John Pedder, Dr — director, appointed 18/01/2019on trustee list
• MILLER, Darren Noel, The Venerable — director, appointed 13/01/2018on trustee list
• BLYTHE, Iain David — secretary, appointed 01/05/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

304 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (297 freehold); recorded price paid £9.7m. 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 ~4.5 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 (73% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/02/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Elizabeth Ann Boucherat
• Anthony Richter
• Dr John Pedder Moss · trustee of 1 other charity
• Graham Clifford Codling · trustee of 1 other charity
• Iain David Blythe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Judith Ann Andrews · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael David William Darkins Rev · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev David Robert Malvern Monteith · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Estella Ruth Last · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Gareth Lee Dickinson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Simon Christopher Tillotson
• THE VENERABLE WILLIAM JONATHAN ADAM · trustee of 9 other charities
• The Most Revd Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally · trustee of 5 other charities
• The Revd Dr Andrew James Bawtree · trustee of 3 other charities
• The Right Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Venrable Darren Miller

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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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 £9.8m
• THE EXETER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £18.8m
• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £14.7m
• THE DERBY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £11.0m
• GUILDFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £17.3m
• THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £96k

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