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Registered charity · Hereford

The Hereford Diocesan Board of Finance

The Hereford Diocesan Board of Finance is a registered charity (number 249685) based in Hereford, governed by 16 trustees. Latest income £6.0m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Hdbf (Charity Commission)

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £6.0m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 3 more
Where
Shropshire, Herefordshire
Website
www.hereford.anglican.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Hereford Diocesan Board of Finance
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.0m£7.7m
  • 2024£6.2m£7.4m
  • 2023£5.9m£7.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.1m£6.9m
  • 2021£5.6m£6.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, AID, AND FURTHER THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK, OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (HEREAFTER CALLED "THE CHURCH") IN THE DIOCESE OF HEREFORD (WHATEVER FOR THE TIME BEING SHALL BE THE AREA OF THE DIOCESE CALLED THE DIOCESE OF HEREFORD, OR CALLED BY ANY NAME WHICH SHALL HEREAFTER BE SUBSTITUTED FOR THE PRESENT NAME OF THE DIOCESE, AND WHICH AREA IS HEREAFTER REFERRED TO AS "THE DIOCESE"), BUT AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD INCLUDING THROUGH: I. SUPPORTING FINANCIALLY OR OTHERWISE TRAINING FOR MINISTRY, CLERICAL AND LAY II. THE MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF CLERGY AND OTHER PERSONS CONNECTED WITH MINISTRY OR THE WORK OF THE CHURCH III. THE PROVISION OF PENSIONS FOR MINISTERS, TEACHERS AND WORKERS OF THE CHURCH, AND OF PERSONS WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY HELD ANY SUCH POSITION, AND DEPENDENTS OF THEM OR ANY OF THEM AND THE OVERSIGHT OF SUCH DEPENDENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO THE CLERGY PENSIONS MEASURE 1961

Grants received

16 grants · £906,065 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 · £743,763 (7 grants)
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities · £38,630
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £36,000
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £26,216 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £23,456 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £216,7792026-02-12
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £11,8252024-04-01
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £14,3912023-04-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £8,0002022-09-16
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £16,7712022-04-01
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.

3.1y median 2.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
4
trustees past 6 years
10.7y
average years in governance
15
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 16Religious Activities 16The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 16

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 17Education 6Arts and leisure 3

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£6.2m 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.

2.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 7.5 in 2020

44 from 43 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
249685
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27TH JULY 1916 AS AMENDED 22ND MAY 1953, 11TH APRIL 1962, 21ST MARCH 1986 AND 23 MAY 1994 AS AMENDED ON 11 OCT 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 06 JUN 2019 as amended on 20 Oct 2020
Companies House
Company number 00144467 · Active
Contact on the register
01432373300 · diooffice@hereford.anglican.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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