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The Birmingham Diocesan Board of Finance

The Birmingham Diocesan Board of Finance is a registered charity (number 249403) based in Birmingham, governed by 25 trustees and chaired by Steven Murray Skakel since 2013. Latest income £15m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 25 trustees
  • Income £15m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Religious Activities
Where
Birmingham City, Sandwell, Solihull, Warwickshire
Website
www.cofebirmingham.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Birmingham Diocesan Board of Finance
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£15m£15m
  • 2024£16m£14m
  • 2023£12m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2022£13m£13m
  • 2021£12m£12m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PERFORM WORK AND TO TRANSACT BUSINESS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE DIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM.

Grants received

5 grants · £986,994 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

  • Department for Education · £962,090 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £14,104
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,800 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £8002023-03-28
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £14,1042020-04-01
  • Department for Education £842,9832020-04-01
  • Department for Education £119,1082020-04-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002006-11-10
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.

3.9y median 4y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (11)

19
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 24General Charitable Purposes 23Education/training 6Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 21Education 5Health and social care 2

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£15.8m 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.

3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.7 in 2020

74 from 85 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
249403
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 20TH AUGUST 1947 AS AMENDED BY A SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 16 NOVEMBER 1996
Companies House
Company number 00440966 · Active
Contact on the register
01214264000 · hello@cofebirmingham.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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