DBF Budget

Below you can find out more about the budget for the Diocesan Board of Finance (DBF) and the funding received from the Church Commissioners.

Budget

Find below a simple A3 poster explaining our budget for 2025 and 2026, as well as our budget guide document.

Click here or on the picture above to download the budget on a page poster for 2026

Budget Guide 2026

Budget Guide 2025

Diocesan Finances FAQs

A briefing on some of the finance related questions which are raised most frequently has been drawn up to help clergy and postholders with responding. You can access the resource here.

Support from the Church Commissioners

The Church Commissioners aims to distribute the most amount of funding possible to the church. The amount of funding available each triennium (three-year funding period) is decided by the Board of Governors following advice from independent actuaries.

In May 2025, the Church Commissioners announced that it intended to distribute £1.6 billion between 2026 and 2028, up 36% from £1.2 billion in the previous three-year period, and planned to distribute £4.6 billion over the nine years from 2026 to 2034. This represents the biggest distribution in the Church’s history.

The Church Commissioners’ distributions account for approximately 20% of Church funding, while the biggest contribution comes from the generous giving of churchgoers across the country. Funding is allocated through the Archbishops’ Council.

In line with the Church’s Vision and Strategy for the 2020s, funds are also used to support parish churches and dioceses. This includes:

• Continued funding for the Church in the poorest parts of the country, taking into account lessons from the recent independent review into Strategic Development (SDF) and Lowest Income Communities (LInC) funding.
• Increasing the number of clergy in front-line ministry in parishes and chaplaincies, with the intent that the Church’s clergy better reflects the diversity of the nation that we serve.
  In addition, the Church will lead by example in areas that are important not only to the Church but to wider society.
• Enabling thriving local churches across the country, making significant contributions to their local communities and delivering even more social action work.
• Supporting diocesan, parish and cathedral plans for the Church to become carbon net zero by 2030 – a target set by General Synod.
• Funding measures that will make the Church more diverse.

The table on the following page outlines the Church Commissioners funding support to the Diocese of Salisbury. They also fund Bishops working costs and stipends, the diocesan bishop’s house, and stipends of the Cathedral Dean and two canons.

This table will be kept updated