BIRMINGHAM KARMA LING

Registered charity 1006450 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide facilities for regular Buddhist prayers, meditation and services for both resident community and others to which all are welcome. To sponsor eminent Buddhist teachers to visit the centre to give religious instruction. To publish Buddhist texts. To provide educational resources for local establishments. To support the study of Tibetan language.

Objects

(A)TO ADVANCE THE BUDDHIST RELIGION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS AND DOCTRINES OF THE KARMA-KAGYU SCHOOL OF BUDDHISM. (B)TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TRADITIONS OF BUDDHISM. (C)TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN NEED IN ACCORDANCE WITH BUDDHIST PRACTICES.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE - BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted cash funds of £70,550 at the end of the period, resulting in a net surplus of £6,963 for the year. The trustees declare that the charity holds no specific reserves, and the governing document is a Trust Deed under which the charity is constituted as a Charitable Trust.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALUN JOHN DAVIES
• Dr Debra Malpass
• Esther Bowles
• Jacqueline Mary O'Hanlon
• PAUL VIVIAN MULLARD

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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