The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Winchester Diocesan Board of Finance

Registered charity 249276 Registered since 1966

Operates: Dorset, Hampshire, Southampton City, Burundi, Rwanda, Burma, Uganda, Congo (Democratic Republic)

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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.

3.1y median 1.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.5y
average years in governance
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 2The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Economic/community Development/employment 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1Overseas Aid/famine Relief 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 16Finance 5Professional services 5

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£13.0m latest income
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.

29.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 31.5 in 2020

51 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.

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

Websitewww.winchester.anglican.org
Emailenquiries@winchester.anglican.org
Phone01962737336
AddressThe Diocesan Office, Old Alresford Place, Old Alresford, ALRESFORD, SO24 9DH

Finances

£13,023,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£13,525,000£12,470,000
2021£14,834,000£13,869,000
2022£13,088,000£12,980,000
2023£13,179,000£13,006,000
2024£13,023,000£14,655,000

What it does

What

Religious Activities

Who

Other Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Human ResourcesProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, AID AND FURTHER THE OBJECTS AND WORK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, PARTICULARLY IN THE DIOCESE OF WINCHESTER.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/12/1915AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/01/1950AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/01/1958AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/04/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/05/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/12/2012 as amended on 20 Jan 2025

Trustees (15)

14trustees
61median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Winchester Diocesan Board of Finance(the) · 00142351 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 08/12/1915

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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