| Description | Annual reports of the Diocesan Institutions: at various times they include the Board of Finance (1873-1972), Church Building Society, later Church Building Fund (erection of churches, temporary iron churches and mission chapels) (1873-1972), Board of Education (training colleges at Chester and Warrington, examinations in religious knowledge, grant aid to schools in poor parishes) ), Education Association, Benefices Augmentation Fund (1873-1971), institutions at Warrington (Widows' and Orphans' Pensions' Fund (inc. St Elphin's Church of England School, Darley Dale, Matlock), Clergy Daughters' School), Spiritual Aid Society, the House of Mercy, the Clergy Pensions Fund, the Clergy Sustentation Fund , Clergy Stipends Fund (1934-1972), Church Schools Association , Ordination Candidates' Fund, later Ordination Training Committee, later Ordination Training Fund (1913-1970) Association for the Promotion of Social Purity, later Board of Moral Welfare (1919-1972), Special Service Clergy Fund, Board of Missions, later Missionary Council, later Board of Mission and Unity (1919-1972), Mission to the Deaf and Dumb, Women Messengers, later Bishop's Messengers, Dilapidations Board (1926-1972), Sunday Schools Board, later Voluntary Religious Education Committee, Occasional Duty Fund ( Emergency Insurance Scheme), Youth Committee, later Youth Council, Adult Education (1964-1965), Church Womens' Fellowship (1964-1968), Council for Women's Ministry in the Church (1960-1967), Publications Fund (-1972), Children's Council (1960-1967), Advisory Board for the Ministry (1971-1972), Council for Social Aid (1971-1972), Clergy Widows and Dependants Fund , and the Victoria Jubilee Fund (1965-1972)
From 1932, the reports are presented as papers at Dioceasn Conferences; from the late 1930s, many reports are reduced to a statement of accounts |