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Registered charity · Worcester

Worcester Diocesan Board of Finance Limited

  • 18 trustees
  • Income £11m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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
Dudley, Sandwell, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and more
Website
www.cofe-worcester.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Worcester Diocesan Board of Finance Limited
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£11m£9.3m
  • 2023£10m£10.0m
  • 2022£9.2m£8.8m
Earlier years
  • 2021£8.2m£8.8m
  • 2020£8.9m£8.4m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, AID AND FURTHER THE OBJECTS, WORK AND BUSINESS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER. (FOR FURTHER INFORMATION SEE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION).

Grants received

6 grants · £2,064,816 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 · £2,054,252 (4 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £5,464
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £5,100

Most recent

  • Department for Education £443,6642023-04-01
  • Department for Education £443,9682022-04-01
  • Department for Education £487,2532021-04-01
  • Department for Education £679,3672020-04-01
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £5,1002016-08-31
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.

3.7y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure
10.9y
average years in governance
17
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 18Education/training 9Environment/conservation/heritage 3The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 3Arts/culture/heritage/science 2General Charitable Purposes 2Other Charitable Purposes 2Disability 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 24Finance 15Education 8

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£10.6m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

6.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.6 in 2020

48 from 52 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
247778
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 31 DECEMBER 1932, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 2 NOVEMBER 2009 AND SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20 APRIL 2010
Companies House
Company number 00271752 · Active
Contact on the register
01905732802 · jnex@cofe-worcester.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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