THE LONDON DIOCESAN BOARD FOR SCHOOLS

Registered charity 313000 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Working alongside schools in the Diocese of London to support them in their task of providing high quality education inspired by Christian values and faith.We also promote co-operation between the Board and bodies or persons concerned in any respect with education in the Diocese.Most of our activites are focused on the 156 Church of England schools in the Diocese of London.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets decreased to £37.9m (2024: £44.1m) following a £7.5m reduction in the property investment portfolio valuation. However, cash balances increased to £12.7m, and unrestricted reserves stood at £1.1m, which is above the stated policy target of £685,000. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Penny Roberts MBE — Director of Education (source)
• Helen Ridding — Deputy Director of Education (source)
• Terri Patterson — People and Culture Director (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

191 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (177 freehold); recorded price paid £1.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (40% 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: 14.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Rt Revd Rod Greenchair
• Carla Christine Munoz Slaughter
• Dame Alice Hudson · trustee of 1 other charity
• HELEN DIMMOCK · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL PHILIP POULARD
• Monica Adassa Duncan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Matthew Stephen Knox
• Rev Richard Andrew Collins
• Rev William Rogers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephanie Ajayi · trustee of 2 other charities
• Tanya Hughes OBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Zoe Juanin Vickerman · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Surrey · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DERBY DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION.

• DERBY DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £445k
• THE SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION (INCORPORATED) income £8.4m
• MANCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £804k
• OXFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £7.2m
• THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £2.0m
• LINCOLN DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £685k

Side by side with its peers

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