THE BISHOP'S DEVELOPMENT FUND

Registered charity 700588 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BISHOP'S CENTENARY FUND

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted funds with a capital value of £750,000, which are unrestricted other than for the purposes of the Trust. The trustees report that sufficient investment assets exist to fund grants for the foreseeable future, indicating a stable financial position without stated reserves policy targets or deficits.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit).

Trustees

• Elizabeth Margaret Morton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Ambler
• The Right Reverend Malcolm Leslie Chamberlain · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Venerable Catherine Mary Thatcher · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Venerable William Edward Braviner · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Doncaster · Kirklees

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE OVERSEAS BISHOPRICS' FUND.

• THE OVERSEAS BISHOPRICS' FUND income £514k
• THE BISHOP RADFORD TRUST income £621k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BURSLEDON income £187k
• BISHOPS CASTLE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL income £128k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH, TUNBRIDGE WELLS income £802k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PATRICK, WALLINGTON income £351k