THE DIOCESE IN EUROPE BOARD OF FINANCE

Registered charity 250186 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIOCESE IN EUROPE, THE GIBRALTER DIOCESAN TRUST

The company's principal activity is to promote, assist and advance the work of the Church of England in the Diocese in Europe.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the Diocese in Europe Board of Finance reported a net surplus of £206,722 for the year, driven by a £450,544 gain on the sale of the Suffragan Bishop's house, while underlying operations showed a deficit of £155,812. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £4,188,302, which the Trustees consider sufficient to meet its policy target of holding 1.5 to 2.0 times annual unrestricted expenditure. The financial review notes that the DBF is running a manageable deficit with plans to balance the budget by 2028, supported by strong Common Fund returns of 96%.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Diocese in Europe (Church of England) (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Robert Innes — Bishop (source)
• Andrew — Suffragan Bishop (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Benefact Trust — “The creation of this website was supported by Benefact Trust” (source page)

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

Reported reserves equal ~22.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (64% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• LORD STEPHEN KEITH GREENchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• April Lynn Carter
• David White · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joan Berry
• John William Errey
• Mary Gertrude Talbot
• Maxine Wildhaber
• Rev Beth Bendrey
• Rev David Waller
• Rev Dominic Gerald Bruno Newstead
• Rev Ian Denis Tarrant
• Rev Kasta Dip · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Mark William Osborne
• Rev Richard Allen Gardiner
• Rev Richard Anthony Seabrook
• Revd Canon David Wright
• Revd Dr James Thomas Hadley
• Reverend Canon Carolyn Jane Cooke
• Rt Reverend Andrew Robert Norman
• Simon Urquhart
• Susan Boyd
• Thamarai Pandian
• The Rev'd Dr. Leslie Satianathan Nathaniel
• The Revd Canon Deborah Mary Rollins Flach
• The Rt Revd Dr Robert Innes
• The Ven Samuel Wall Van Leer

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

Operates in: Andorra · Armenia · Austria · Belgium · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Croatia · Czech Republic · Denmark · Estonia · Finland · France

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.

• LORD GREEN OF HURSTPIERPOINT — trustee here and at THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S ANGLICAN COMMUNION FUND

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 NORWICH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED.

• THE NORWICH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £13.4m
• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £13.9m
• THE LICHFIELD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £17.0m
• THE ELY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £11.1m
• THE EXETER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £18.8m
• THE DURHAM DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £12.5m

Side by side with its peers

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