MANCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION

Registered charity 530002 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MANCHESTER DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION

The principal activity of the Board is to promote the quality of education generally throughout the Diocese of Manchester and in particular through its aided and controlled schools, or otherwise benefit those schools, and to provide as necessary for the maintenance, improvement and extension of aided school buildings.

Objects

TO PROMOTE OR ASSIST IN THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER. THE OBJECTS SHALL BE CARRIED OUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

Area of benefit: THE DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER

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

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

Registered contact address: Bury, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £190,087 before investment losses, resulting in an overall net deficit of £444,431 due to an unrealised loss on investments of £254,344. Despite this deficit, the charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £812,362, which the trustees state equates to over twelve months of expenditure, well above their policy target of three months' revenue commitment. The charity is prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified regarding its ability 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 03/04/2024, 155 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00618201
• Trading subsidiary: DBE SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 05531123

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.

• WRENCH, Louise — director, appointed 23/03/2026on trustee list
• HUMBY, Tuesday, Dr — director, appointed 23/03/2026on trustee list
• HUTCHINS, Paul, Reverend — director, appointed 17/12/2024on trustee list
• PILLING, Jill, Canon — director, appointed 17/12/2024on trustee list
• SCREETON, Kirsty Hayley, Reverend — director, appointed 12/11/2024on trustee list
• HAMPSON, Kathryn Margaret — director, appointed 12/11/2024on trustee list
• MCKIE, Katherine Adele, Revd — director, appointed 15/11/2022on trustee list
• ELSWOOD, Gareth Frank — director, appointed 15/11/2022on trustee list
• SUDWORTH, Karen Louise — director, appointed 15/11/2022on trustee list
• LAZZ-ONYENOBI, Adanna, Dr Mrs — director, appointed 01/01/2019on trustee list
• HOPWOOD-OWEN, Karen, Revd — director, appointed 01/01/2016on trustee list
• WALKER, David Stuart, Rt Revd — director, appointed 30/11/2013on trustee list
• DAVIES, Mark, The Right Reverend — director, appointed 28/04/2008on trustee list
• SMITH, Deborah — secretary, appointed 27/11/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

213 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (196 freehold); recorded price paid £300k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~80.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (41% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Right Reverend Mark Davieschair · trustee of 5 other charities
• Canon Jill Pilling
• Dr ADANNA LAZZ-ONYENOBI · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr Tuesday Humby
• Gareth Frank Elswood
• Karen Luise Sudworth
• Kathryn Margaret Hampson
• Louise Wrench
• Rev DAVID STUART WALKER · trustee of 7 other charities
• Rev Karen Hopwood-Owen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Katherine Adele McKie
• Rev Kirsty Hayley Screeton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Paul Hutchins · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Lancashire · Manchester City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• PETERBOROUGH DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £477k
• OXFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £6.1m
• THE CHICHESTER DIOCESAN FUND AND BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £21.6m
• INCORPORATED ROCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £1.9m
• MANCHESTER DIOCESAN CHURCH OF ENGLAND COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL AID income £142k
• LEICESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £452k

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