The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The Durham Diocesan Board of Finance

Registered charity 248287 Registered since 1966

Operates: Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Durham, Hartlepool, Stockton-on-tees, Darlington

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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.

4.7y median 5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure
9.3y
average years in governance
14
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 19Religious Activities 19Accommodation/housing 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.

Other services 16Education 5Agriculture 1

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£12.5m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

5.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 5.9 in 2021

50 from 43 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitehttps://durhamdiocese.org/
Emaildiocesan.secretary@durham.anglican.org
Phone01388604515
AddressDurham Diocesan Board of Finance, Cuthbert House, Stonebridge, Durham, Co Durham, DH1 3RY

Finances

£12,474,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£12,763,319£12,011,975
2022£12,633,613£13,084,537
2023£12,398,038£12,997,034
2024£12,907,000£13,092,000
2025£12,474,000£12,772,000

What it does

What

Education/trainingReligious Activities

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Charities Or Voluntary BodiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Other FinanceProvides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST THE WORK AND PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE DIOCESE OF DURHAM. (FOR FULLER DETAILS SEE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION)

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21/08/1923 AS ADOPTED 09/ 10/1965

Trustees (19)

19trustees
61median age
5aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Durham Diocesan Board of Finance · 00192018 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 21/08/1923

1 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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