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Registered charity · Birmingham

Birmingham Diocesan Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £24m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Brcdtr.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Birmingham City, Coventry City, Dudley, Sandwell and more
Website
www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£24m£26m
  • 2023£24m£25m
  • 2022£20m£22m
Earlier years
  • 2021£18m£23m
  • 2020£19m£24m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OR MAINTENANCE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM.

Grants received

123 grants · £43,310,085 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 Education · £40,133,728 (34 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £2,023,930 (11 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £845,576 (54 grants)
  • National Churches Trust · £134,355 (12 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £50,949 (4 grants)

Most recent

  • National Churches Trust £5,0002024-11-07
  • Department for Education £5,111,2232024-04-01
  • Department for Education £108,4392024-04-01
  • Department for Education £286,4662024-04-01
  • Department for Education £1,265,6552024-04-01
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.

7y median 6y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure
7.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (8)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Religious Activities 11Education/training 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Education 2Other services 1Professional services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£24.2m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

9.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 12.2 in 2020

356 from 328 in 2020
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
234216
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 3 JULY 1931 AS AMENDED BY ORDER DATED 13 DECEMBER 2004AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 22 SEP 2017AS AMENDED ON 12 JAN 2018AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 22 JAN 2021AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 30 APR 2021
Contact on the register
01212306216
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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