The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The Chelmsford Diocesan Board of Finance

Registered charity 249505 Registered since 1966

Operates: Barking And Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Waltham Forest, Essex, Suffolk, Thurrock, Southend-on-sea

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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.

3.2y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure
9.4y
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.

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.

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Contact

Websitewww.chelmsford.anglican.org
EmailFinance@chelmsford.anglican.org
Phone01245294400
Address53 NEW STREET, CHELMSFORD, CM1 1AT

Finances

£22,995,571 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£24,842,000£22,881,000
2022£23,751,909£24,140,126
2023£26,411,159£24,645,062
2024£22,321,043£26,929,017
2025£22,995,571£25,819,140

What it does

What

Religious Activities

Who

Other Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Other FinanceProvides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/information

Charitable objects

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

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

Trustees (29)

29trustees
67median age
9aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Chelmsford Diocesan Board of Finance(the) · 00137029 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 16/07/1914

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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