The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance

Registered charity 249798 Registered since 1967

Operates: Devon, Plymouth City, Torbay

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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.

3y median 3y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.7y
average years in governance
22
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 24The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6Education/training 5Disability 2General Charitable Purposes 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Accommodation/housing 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 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 26Professional services 12Education 5

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£16.8m 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.

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

68 from 69 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.

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.

Related organisations

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Contact

Websitewww.exeter.anglican.org
Phone01392272686
AddressDIOCESE OF EXETER, THE OLD DEANERY, THE CLOISTERS, EXETER, EX1 1HS

Finances

£18,814,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£15,714,000£14,058,000
2022£17,795,000£16,577,000
2023£17,151,000£17,507,000
2024£16,768,000£17,749,000
2025£18,814,000£17,105,000

What it does

What

Religious Activities

Who

Other Defined Groups

How

Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE AREA FOR THE TIME BEING CALLED THE DIOCESE OF EXETER

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27TH NOVEMBER 1922 AS AMENDED ON 29 APRIL 2003 as amended on 31 Jul 2018 as amended on 11 Sep 2020

Trustees (26)

26trustees
62median age
7aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance Limited · 00186001 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 27/11/1922

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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