Church Commissioners

Church Commissioners for England
PredecessorEcclesiastical Commissioners
Queen Anne's Bounty
Formation2 April 1948; 76 years ago (1948-04-02)
Legal statusRegistered charity
PurposeInvestment
HeadquartersChurch House, Westminster, London
Region served
England
Membership
33
Secretary and Chief Executive
Gareth Mostyn
First Church Estates Commissioner
Alan Smith
Second Church Estates Commissioner
Marsha de Cordova
Third Church Estates Commissioner
Eve Poole
Parent organization
General Synod of the Church of England
Budget (2017)
£285,802,166
Staff
66
Websitewww.churchofengland.org/about/leadership-and-governance/church-commissioners
No. 1 Millbank, built for the Church Commissioners by W. D. Caroe (1903)

The Church Commissioners is a body which administers the property assets of the Church of England. It was established in 1948 and combined the assets of Queen Anne's Bounty, a fund dating from 1704 for the relief of poor clergy, and of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners formed in 1836. The Church Commissioners are a registered charity regulated by the Charity Commission for England and Wales, and are liable for the payment of pensions to retired clergy whose pensions were accrued before 1998 (subsequent pensions are the responsibility of the Church of England Pensions Board).

The secretary (and chief executive) of the Church Commissioners is Gareth Mostyn.