Common questions about The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited a good charity? +
The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited scores 89 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 99% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited as a registered charity (charity number 248502). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=248502&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's charity number? +
The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's charity number is 248502. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's charity rating? +
The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited scores 89 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 99% of The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 1% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 2% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited. The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited receive? +
The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited reported £9.5m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: declining.
Are The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-29). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited based? +
The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's registered contact address is in Stoke-on-Trent (STOKE GI). It tells the regulator it operates in Wiltshire, North Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bristol City, Swindon, with a focus on religion.
How much is The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's money come from? +
The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited reported £9.5m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £7.5m (79%), investments £1.2m (13%), other income £471k (5%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited? +
The register records The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's trustees paid? +
The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited registered as a charity? +
The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited was entered on the register on 23 November 1966. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00156243).
How does CharityCompare score The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Limited's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.