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

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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.

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 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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