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Registered charity · Newbrick Road

The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited

The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited is a registered charity (number 248502) based in Newbrick Road, governed by 14 trustees and chaired by Richard Francis Bacon since 2022. Latest income £9.5m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £9.5m (2024)
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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
Religious Activities
Where
Wiltshire, North Somerset, Bath And North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire and more
Website
www.bristol.anglican.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£9.5m£14m
  • 2023£9.0m£12m
  • 2022£9.6m£10m
Earlier years
  • 2021£9.4m£9.7m
  • 2020£14m£9.6m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST THE WORK AND PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE DIOCESE OF BRISTOL

Grants received

8 grants · £2,035,496 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

Most recent

  • Department for Education £38,0222023-04-01
  • Department for Education £489,2622023-04-01
  • Department for Education £482,9562022-04-01
  • Department for Education £38,2022021-04-01
  • Department for Education £456,6782021-04-01
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.

4.7y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure
11.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (12)

12
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 13Education/training 5General Charitable Purposes 3Arts/culture/heritage/science 2Environment/conservation/heritage 2The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2Accommodation/housing 1Other Charitable Purposes 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 13Arts and leisure 6Professional services 3

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£9.5m 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.

15.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 23.5 in 2020

86 from 51 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
248502
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/06/1919AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/03/1971AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/06/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/06/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/11/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/05/2011
Companies House
Company number 00156243 · Active
Contact on the register
01179060100 · finance@bristoldiocese.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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