TIBET HOUSE TRUST

Registered charity 1037230 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THT

During the financial year the Trust had made donations to charitable institutions amounting to ?219,347. The detailed are below:1) Education, Religion and Culture - ? 26,5972) Community Development - ? 178,7843) Health - ? 13,966

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£191k
Latest spending
£371k
Registered
1994
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £190,962 from £145,697 in the prior year, while total expenditure fell significantly to £370,504 from £688,627. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £601,086, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain ongoing projects despite reduced donation levels.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient unrestricted income reserves to ensure that these projects can continue to be supported in the event that the level of donations received is reduced for any reason (held: £601k)
“it is therefore the Trust's policy to maintain sufficient unrestricted income reserves to ensure that these projects can continue to be supported in the event that the level of donations received is reduced for any reason.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donations received from a charity where a trustee is also a trustee.
“During the year, the Trust received donations of £10,000 (2024: £nil) from the Tibet Charitable Trust, a charity of which Mr Hansjorg Mayer is also a Trustee.” — page 26
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Total income
£780k
Total spending
£128k
Reserves (reported)
£576k
Employees
2

Reported reserves equal ~54.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: India · Nepal · Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£191k£371k
31/03/2024£146k£689k
31/03/2023£780k£128k
31/03/2022£191k£327k
31/03/2021£251k£281k

Common questions

Is TIBET HOUSE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income decreased to £190,962 from £145,697 in the prior year, while total expenditure fell significantly to £370,504 from £688,627. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £601,086, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain ongoing projects despite reduced donation levels. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by TC Group.

Who funds TIBET HOUSE TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name TIBET HOUSE TRUST as a grant recipient include BIRTHDAY HOUSE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
BIRTHDAY HOUSE TRUSTFY2025£12kAdvancement of religion

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund20/02/2006£173kWater and Sanitation Project for Tibetan Refugees

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE 3 TS CHARITABLE TRUST1£50k
DINA PERELMAN TRUST LIMITED1£10k
THE SAMUEL STOREY FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST1£330

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TIBET WATCH.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
TIBET HOUSE TRUST£191k—0unclear—no doubt
TIBET WATCH FY2025£182k—0above—no doubt
THE HIMALAYAN TRUST UK CIO FY2025£263k—0unclear—no doubt
SUMNER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£136k—0above—no doubt
THE LADUMA DHAMECHA CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026£3.9m—0above—no doubt
THE TRESANTON TRUST FY2025£470k—0below—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.