Coventry Diocesan Board of Education

Analysis

Coventry Diocesan Board of Education is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Coventry. It was registered in March 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03663851). It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Coventry Diocesan Board of Education reported income of £491k and spending of £561k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £447k to £491k (+9.8%), an average of +2.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 117% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Coventry Diocesan Board of Education sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St James & Emmanuel, Didsbury (£490k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Thomas Wells with the Horringtons (£492k) and Lambeth Circuit Methodist Church (£490k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.