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The Archbishops' Council

The Archbishops' Council is a registered charity (number 1074857) based in London, governed by 17 trustees. Latest income £235m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 11th October 2026.

  • 17 trustees
  • Income £235m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Throughout England, Isle Of Man
Website
www.churchofengland.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£235m£232m
  • 2024£236m£229m
  • 2023£186m£182m
Earlier years
  • 2022£153m£152m
  • 2021£128m£129m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO CO-ORDINATE, PROMOTE, AID AND FURTHER THE WORK AND MISSION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

Grants received

11 grants · £19,171,377 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £14,381,560 (4 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £4,741,113 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £37,090 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,989
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £1,625

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £4,681,2132024-07-04
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9892023-08-18
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £4,367,0702021-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £10,000,0002020-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £4,5002020-04-01

Grants given

765 grants · £15,125,484 total

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Top recipients

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

4.4y median 5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure
13.3y
average years in governance
9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 17Religious Activities 17The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 14Economic/community Development/employment 2Environment/conservation/heritage 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 17Education 13Business services 7

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£234.9m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 0.8 in 2021

206 from 162 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1074857
Status
Registered
Governing document
NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS MEASURE 1998.
Contact on the register
02078981000 · info@churchofengland.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 11th October 2026
Labels
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