THE OXFORD DIOCESAN BELL FUND

Registered charity 268390 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Using the income from investment to make grants towards the maintance of church bells within the Diocese of Oxford

Objects

TO COLLECT AND RAISE SUMS OF MONEY AND TO APPLY THE INCOME ARISING FROM THE INVESTMENT OF SUCH SUMS IN OR TOWARDS THE REPAIR, MAINTENANCE AND RENEWAL OF THE CHURCH BELLS IN THE DIOCESE OF OXFORD.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF OXFORD

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total assets increased to £1,294,220 from £1,257,559 in the prior year, with unrestricted reserves (represented by the Investment and Grant Funds) totaling £484,815. The charity reported a surplus of receipts over payments in both its Investment and Grant funds, indicating stable financial operations without reliance on external funding for continuity.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• 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
• Risk management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN MARCHBANKchair
• BRIAN JAMES GATWARD
• CATHERINE LANE
• GRAHAM CLIFTON
• KEN DAVENPORT
• STUART FREDERICK GIBSON
• STUART GIBSON
• Trevor Keith Withell · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Buckinghamshire · Oxfordshire · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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