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Registered charity · Gloucester

The Gloucester Diocesan Board of Finance

The Gloucester Diocesan Board of Finance is a registered charity (number 251234) based in Gloucester, governed by 20 trustees and chaired by David WYN Roberts since 2024. Latest income £25m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 20 trustees
  • Income £25m (2024)
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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
Religious Activities
Where
Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Bath And North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire and more
Website
www.gloucester.anglican.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Gloucester Diocesan Board of Finance
Registered
1967

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£25m£16m
  • 2023£11m£13m
  • 2022£11m£13m
Earlier years
  • 2021£12m£12m
  • 2020£11m£12m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST THE WORK, OBJECTS AND PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE DIOCESE;(B) TO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION CONSIDER MAY BE EXPEDIENT FOR THE BETTER PROMOTION AND ASSISTANCE OF THE WORK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

Grants received

11 grants · £1,381,636 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 · £1,244,484
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £90,400
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £25,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £13,752 (2 grants)
  • Haberdashers' Company · £8,000 (5 grants)

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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.

4.2y median 3.5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.6y
average years in governance
17
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 20Education/training 4General Charitable Purposes 3Arts/culture/heritage/science 2The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2Amateur Sport 1Disability 1Environment/conservation/heritage 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 39Arts and leisure 12Education 6

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£24.8m latest income
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.

3.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 0.0 in 2020

61 from 46 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
251234
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION AS AMENDED 11/07/1968 INCORPORATED 30/12/1919AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25 NOV 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 12 APR 2019
Companies House
Company number 00162165 · Active
Contact on the register
01452410022 · reception@glosdioc.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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