BUDDHIST COMPASSION RELIEF TZU-CHI FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1050821 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132472054 · also known as TZU-CHI

education, cultural and religious activities. Environmental and recycling activities

Objects

1.TO RELIEVE THOSE PERSONS IN PARTICLUAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE WHO ARE ELDERLY, THOSE WITH DISABILITIES AND THOSE CHILDREN WHO ARE ORPHANED, WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS AS A RESULT OF LOCAL NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DISASTER OR BY REASONS OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY THE PROVISION OF FOOD,CLOTHING AND SHELTER. 2.THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION AND TEACHING OF THE CHINESE CULTURE,LANGUAGE AND THE PHILOSOPHIES OF BUDDHISM.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £56,961 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £235,534 against resources used of £182,961. Per the balance sheet, unrestricted reserves stood at £165,889, while restricted funds held £104,281, resulting in total net assets of £270,170. The filing confirms the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with adequate resources to meet its objectives.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 03/04/2023, 154 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHIEN LUNG CHUchair
• Mei Huei Lin
• Peter Liu
• Yizhen PENG

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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