THE SALISBURY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE — grant history

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Latest income

£14.7m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£1.2m

Accounts grants total

£2.3m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

What they don’t fund: The Retired Clergy Housing Fund explicitly states that 'no applicants from the Channel Islands will be considered' because they are financially independent. The Laing Family Trusts are currently closed to new applications.

Summarised from www.salisbury.anglican.org · www.salisbury.anglican.org/whoweare/dbfstaff/Engagement%20and%20Fundraising/ · www.salisbury.anglican.org/missionandministry/clergy-hr/retired-clergy-housing-fund/ on 13/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (3 grantees)
Religious Activities (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
Environment/conservation/heritage (1 grantee)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England (2 grantees)
Dorset (1 grantee)
Hampshire (1 grantee)
Isle Of Man (1 grantee)
Wiltshire (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Grants Ordinands	—	£130k
new	Grants Clergy Removals Fees	—	£116k
new	Diocese Investment Fund	—	£113k
new	Buildings for Mission: Minor Repairs & Impr.	—	£92k
new	Grants Clergy Resettlement	—	£69k
new	Grants Clergy First Appointment	—	£28k
new	Grants Resourcing Ministerial Formation (RMF)	—	£20k
new	Benefact	—	£17k
down	THE ARCHBISHOPS' COUNCIL	£1.0m	£229k
not listed	SUDANESE DIOCESES / SCHOOLS / COLLEGES	£177k	—
not listed	PCCs	£156k	—
not listed	County ecumenical bodies	£6k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Salisbury Diocesan Board of Education	FY2025	£347k	Connected Charity / Education work
Archbishops Council	FY2025	£229k	National Church responsibilities
Grants Ordinands	FY2025	£130k	To Individuals / Ordinands Support
Grants Clergy Removals Fees	FY2025	£116k	To Individuals / Clergy Support
Diocese Investment Fund	FY2025	£113k	Designated Fund / Vision & Strategy
Buildings for Mission: Minor Repairs & Impr.	FY2025	£92k	Buildings for Mission
Grants Clergy Resettlement	FY2025	£69k	To Individuals / Clergy Support
Sarum College	FY2025	£35k	Training services and conference/venue hire
Grants Clergy First Appointment	FY2025	£28k	To Individuals / Clergy Support
Grants Resourcing Ministerial Formation (RMF)	FY2025	£20k	To Individuals / Ministerial Formation
Benefact	FY2025	£17k	Aldhelm Grant / Other
Vision & Strategy Grant (SMMIB)	FY2025	£5k	Vision & Strategy
Grants LLM	FY2025	£3k	To Individuals / Clergy Support
The Archbishops Council	FY2024	£1.0m	National Church Responsibilities
Salisbury Diocesan Board of Education	FY2024	£337k	National Church Responsibilities
SUDANESE DIOCESES / SCHOOLS / COLLEGES	FY2024	£177k	DIOCESAN LINKS OVERSEAS
PCCs	FY2024	£156k	WITHIN THE DIOCESE
Sarum College	FY2024	£39k	Training services and conference/venue hire
County ecumenical bodies	FY2024	£6k	WITHIN THE DIOCESE

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 1204000 vs reference 2323000 (48.2% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].