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Registered charity · Warrington

The Chester Diocesan Board of Finance

The Chester Diocesan Board of Finance is a registered charity (number 248968) based in Warrington, governed by 30 trustees. Latest income £15m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 11th October 2026.

  • 30 trustees
  • Income £15m (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
Throughout England
Website
www.chester.anglican.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Chester Diocesan Board of Finance
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£15m£16m
  • 2023£15m£15m
  • 2022£15m£15m
Earlier years
  • 2021£15m£14m
  • 2020£14m£15m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

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

Charitable objects

TO MAINTAIN AND PROMOTE THE SPIRITUAL TEACHING OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND TO ACT AS THE DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE FOR THE DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

Grants received

5 grants · £17,383 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

  • Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside £2,5002024-11-07
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £9,0002021-01-25
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £3,0002021-01-25
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £2,2952020-04-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £5882006-09-21
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.

5y median 5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure
9.1y
average years in governance
25
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 30Education/training 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7General Charitable Purposes 4Arts/culture/heritage/science 2

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 32Education 5Finance 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£15.0m 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.

2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

46 from 48 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
248968
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18/05/1873AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/03/1950AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/06/1958AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/11/1965AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/07/1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/12/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/11/2014
Companies House
Company number 00007826 · Active
Contact on the register
01928718834 · churchhouse@chester.anglican.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 11th October 2026
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