Common questions about The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance a good charity? +
The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance scores 87 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 98% 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 Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance as a registered charity (charity number 249798). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=249798&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 Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's charity number? +
The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's charity number is 249798. 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 Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's charity rating? +
The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance scores 87 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 Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance. 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 Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 98% of The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance'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 Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 2% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 2% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance. The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance receive? +
The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance reported £19m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-08-20). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance based? +
The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's registered contact address is in Exeter (EX1 1HS). It tells the regulator it operates in Devon, Plymouth City, Torbay, with a focus on religion.
How much is The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's money come from? +
The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance reported £16m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £11m (69%), investments £1.8m (11%), trading and fundraising events £1.4m (9%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £8,000.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance? +
The register records The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance 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 Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's trustees paid? +
The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance registered as a charity? +
The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance was entered on the register on 13 February 1967. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00186001).
How does CharityCompare score The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance'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 Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.