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Registered charity · Exeter

The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance

The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance is a registered charity (number 249798) based in Exeter, governed by 26 trustees and chaired by Giles Richard Frampton since 2015. Latest income £19m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Edbf (Charity Commission)

  • 26 trustees
  • Income £19m (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
Religious Activities
Where
Devon, Plymouth City, Torbay
Website
www.exeter.anglican.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance Limited
Registered
1967

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£19m£17m
  • 2024£17m£18m
  • 2023£17m£18m
Earlier years
  • 2022£18m£17m
  • 2021£16m£14m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

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

Grants received

5 grants · £140,300 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

Most recent

  • Devon Community Foundation £1,2002023-02-07
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities £120,0002022-04-01
  • National Churches Trust £10,0002018-07-05
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £4,1002014-05-07
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £5,0002006-01-19
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.

3y median 3y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.8y
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 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 25Professional services 11Education 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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
249798
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27 NOV 1922AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 APR 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 MAR 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 SEP 2020
Companies House
Company number 00186001 · Active
Contact on the register
01392272686
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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