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Registered charity · Rochester

The Rochester Diocesan Society and Board of Finance

The Rochester Diocesan Society and Board of Finance is a registered charity (number 249339) based in Rochester, governed by 15 trustees. Latest income £13m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Diocese of Rochester, Rochester Diocese (Charity Commission)

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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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
Bexley, Bromley, Kent, Medway
Website
www.rochester.anglican.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Rochester Diocesan Society and Board of Finance
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£16m
  • 2024£13m£14m
  • 2023£12m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2022£11m£14m
  • 2021£12m£13m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

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

Grants received

7 grants · £5,572,180 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £2,879,252 (3 grants)
  • Department for Education · £2,667,928 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £25,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £2,611,2522022-09-06
  • Department for Education £1,269,4602022-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £18,7502020-11-30
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £6,2502020-11-30
  • Department for Education £1,398,4682020-04-01
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.

1.5y median 2y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.8y
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 15Education/training 7Amateur Sport 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1Recreation 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.

Health and social care 13Education 1Hospitality 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£12.7m 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.

1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.8 in 2020

58 from 58 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
249339
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 14TH JUNE 1915; NEW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON 8TH DEC 1998.
Companies House
Company number 00140656 · Active
Contact on the register
01634560000 · enquiries@rochester.anglican.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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