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Registered charity · Chelmsford

The Chelmsford Diocesan Board of Finance

The Chelmsford Diocesan Board of Finance is a registered charity (number 249505) based in Chelmsford, governed by 29 trustees and chaired by Jeffrey Stephen Peter Mushens since 2022. Latest income £23m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as The Diocese of Chelmsford (Charity Commission)

  • 29 trustees
  • Income £23m (2025)
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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Barking And Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and more
Website
www.chelmsford.anglican.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Chelmsford Diocesan Board of Finance
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£23m£26m
  • 2024£22m£27m
  • 2023£26m£25m
Earlier years
  • 2022£24m£24m
  • 2021£25m£23m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ASSIST AND PROMOTE THE WORK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE DIOCESE OF CHELMSFORD.

Grants received

16 grants · £2,180,774 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 · £1,776,296 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £162,228 (4 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £109,000
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £50,000 (3 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £25,000

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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.

3.2y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure
9.5y
average years in governance
21
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 28Education/training 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 4General Charitable Purposes 3The 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 21Arts and leisure 5Education 4

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£23.0m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 0.0 in 2021

118 from 94 in 2021
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
249505
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16/07/1914AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/04/1949AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/02/1950AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/09/1970AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/10/1979AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 04/03/1980AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/06/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/06/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/03/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/06/2012 as amended on 17 Nov 2018
Companies House
Company number 00137029 · Active
Contact on the register
01245294400 · Finance@chelmsford.anglican.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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