Diocesan Board of Finance

The listed material in this archive is divided into 40 series as follows:

• Cash Books, 1914-1973 [DO/DBF l]
• Central Diocesan Fund, cashbook, 1911-1916 [DO/DBF 2]
• Petty cash account books, 1960-1975 [DO/DBF 3]
• Diocesan Leaflet, account books (1959-1968) & receipts (1972-1975) [DODBF 4]
• Postage books, 1965-1972 [DO/DBF 5]
• Diocesan quota, Account books (1951-1973) & Correspondence (1964-1974) [DO/DBF 6]
• Imprest account books (1960-1975) [DO/DBF 7]
• Office account books, 1952-1974 [DO/DBF 8]
• Board statements of accounts, 1970-1973 [DO/DBF 9]
• Trinity Sunday and St Peter's Tide Appeal, Account books 1958-1975 & Receipts and correspondence 1972-1974 [DO/DBF 10]
• Board receipts, 1972-1973 [DO/DBF ll]
• Secretary's miscellaneous correspondence, 1948-1950 [DO/DBF 12]
• Rate Book, 1972-1973 [DO/DBF 13]
• Diocese of York Report of the Commission on Finance & Administration, 14 Oct 1937 [DO/DBF 14]
• Memorandum & Articles of Association York Diocesan Board of Finance, 20 October 1927 [DO/DBF 15]
• Special Resolution of the York Diocesan Board of Finance 3 April 1950 [DO/DBF 16]
• Memorandum of Association of the York Diocesan Board of Finance 3 April 1950 [DO/DBF 17]
• Balance sheets & statements of accounts, 1959-1972 [DO/DBF 18]
• DBF Annual Report 1950 [DO/DBF 19]
• Trail balances 1972-1973 [DO/DBF 20]
• DBF minutes, correspondence & papers, June 1974-Oct 1976 [DO/DBF 21]
• Finance Accounts, 1972, 1973, 1974 [DO/DBF 22]
• Year end analysis, 1974 [DO/DBF 23]
• Budget papers, 1974 [DO/DBF 24]
• Meetings of councils, committees etc of the DBF, 1969-70, 1971, 1972-74 [DO/DBF 25]
• Treasurers (PCC) notifications of changes, c1970s [DO/DBF 26]
• Office expenses & miscellaneous items, papers invoices, receipts, 1966-1975 [DO/DBF 27]
• Investments correspondence, statements etc 1956-1974 [DO/DBF 28]
• Selective Employment Tax, 1966-1973 [DO/DBF 29]
• Finance & general purposes committee papers 1969-1971 [DO/DBF 30]
• DBF Central Registry Forms [DO/DBF 31]
• Collections at confirmation services, 1972-5 [DO/DBF 32]
• 'Opportunity unlimited', 1964-1973 [DO/DBF 33]
• Church house bookshop, 1964-1974 & Parishes Assemblies campaign, 1967 [DO/DBF 34]
• Liturgical Commission, 1969 [DO/DBF 35]
• Lay Workers - Pensions. Correspondence 1962-1971 [DO/DBF 36]
• Council of Christian Stewardship, correspondence & papers, 1963-1972 [DO/DBF 37]
• Church assembly fund for training colleges, 1948-1950 [DO/DBF 38]
• Stipends Files. Files of correspondence and papers about clerical stipends arranged by parish [DO/SF & DO/SF/2]
• Stipends Registers. Carbon copies of Church Commissioners returns of benefice income 1964-1966 [DO/SR]

The unlisted material in this archive is divided into 2 series as follows:

ADMINISTRATIVE

• (Ad hoc) Diocesan Finance Group, minutes & papers
• Annual reports & accounts 1974-1977
• Correspondence & working papers, 1975-1978, 1979-1981, 1982
• Correspondence re Deeds of Covenant, 1950-1972
• Correspondence with Church Commissioners, 1972-73
• Correspondence with Church of England Central Board of Finance, 1958-1976
• DBF elections, 1974-1976
• DBF Minute books 1912-1951 & 1951-1979
• DBF published reports, 1940s-1960s
• Diocesan publications (year books, consecration lists etc), 1970s
• Diocese of York Report of the Commission on Finance & Administration, 14 Oct 1937
• Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Ltd, 1952-1974
• General Administrative files, 1950s-1980s
• Listing of Church Buildings, 1949-1965
• Meeting papers, 1956-74, 1974-1976
• Papers of the DBF Diocesan Deanery Advisor (PGT Ward), 1970s
• PAYE & National Insurance, correspondence & papers, 1967-1977
• Pensions - Clergy & lay workers, correspondence & papers, 1940s-1970s
• Town & Country Planning Act, correspondence & papers, 1948-1973

FINANCIAL

• Account analysis, 1975-78
• Assessment by potential - Quotas, 1960s & 1970s
• Audited accounts, 1944-54, 1973
• Budget files, 1949-1978
• Budgets, 1979, 1980
• Cash Books, 1972-76
• Church buildings appeal, papers & financial statements, c1956-c1978
• Church grants & loans, 1970-75
• Church membership income & expenditure, 1976-1979
• Clergy car grants, 1965-75
• Clergy car loan scheme, 1974-78
• Clergy emergency & holiday fund, 1975-78
• Clergy holiday grants, 1958-75
• Clergy refresher courses, 1956-75
• Curacy fund, files, arranged by parish, c1970s
• Curacy stipends files, 1949-1977
• Diocesan reorganisation 1971-72
• Diocesan survey (used to assess potential income of parishes - files arranged by Deanery), 1976
• Draft accounts & working papers, 1975-76, 1977-78, 1980-82
• Fairer shares (files arranged by deanery), 1977-78
• Finance/balance sheets (outsize computer printouts), 1974-78
• May church service returns (files arranged by deanery), 1979
• Ministry fund, papers & grants book 1975-1980s
• Parochial Income, 1967/68/69
• Quota, Ministry Fund, Parsonages Fund Accounts, 1970-1974
• Quotas, Journals & pay sheets, 1969-1970
• Receipts & payments 1975
• Receipts & payments, Diocesan Council of Education, 1970s

The records of the Diocesan Board of Finance are then further divided into the following sub sub sub fonds:

• Property, Trust & Investment Committee
• Parsonages Committee
• Chancel Repair Fund
• Buildings Policy Committee (committee closed 1965)
• Diocesan Finance & General Purposes Committee (committee closed 1971)
• Diocesan Council for the Maintenance of the Ministry (council closed c1971)
• Council for Church Buildings (council closed 1972)

The Diocesan Board of Finance (DBF) is the statutory financial committee of the diocesan synod, which manages all diocesan synod funds. Controlled by the diocesan synod, the DBF is a limited company with the power to deal with property and business transactions on the diocesan synod's behalf.

Other institutions covering financial matters preceded the establishment of the Diocesan Board of Finance. The first of these institutions was the short-lived Diocesan & Parochial Finance Committee (1876). Then, the General Diocesan Fund (established 1887 & which became the Central Diocesan Fund in 1909) and the Clergy Pensions Committee (established 1901). In 1909 the Archbishop also appointed a special committee to consider the financial arrangements of the diocese.

The Diocesan Board of Finance was set up by resolution of the York Diocesan Conference in 1912 to organise the collection of funds throughout the diocese to aid the councils and committees concerned with several departments of church work, e.g. training for the ministry, church buildings, missions, religious education, the expenses of diocesan organisation etc. At the Diocesan Conference in 1927, the Board of Finance was given a new scheme under the Diocesan Boards of Finance Measure (1925) by which were set up the Finance and General Purposes Committee and the Property and Trust Committee.

Since its formation in 1912, sub committees of the Diocesan Board of Finance have been acquired, opened & closed. Namely:

• Buildings Policy Committee (January 1958-1965)
• Diocesan Finance & General Purposes Committee (1927-1971)
• Diocesan Council for the Maintenance of the Ministry (January 1965-c1971. Formerly the Council of Maintenance (1938-January 1965)
• Council for Church Buildings (1965-March 1972. Formerly the Diocesan Church Extension Society (1878-1909), the Central Diocesan Fund (1909-1915), the Diocesan Church Extension Committee of the Diocesan Board of Finance (1915-1939), the Council of Church Extension (1939-1965)

Today, in addition to managing the budgets for all administrative bodies that report to the diocesan synod, the Board of Finance has the following sub committees:

• DBF Property, Trust & Investment Committee (formerly the Property & Trust Committee, 1925-ongoing)
• Parsonages Committee (1986-ongoing. Formerly the York Diocesan Dilapidations Board (to 1974), the York Diocesan Parsonages Board of the Board of Finance (1974-1986)
• Chancel Repair Fund (1936-ongoing)

A hard copy finding aid is available at the Borthwick Institute for Stipends Files [DO/SF & DO/SF/2]