THE TIBET RELIEF FUND OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Registered charity 1061834 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TIBET RELIEF FUND

Founded in 1959, within weeks of the Dalai Lama reaching India, Tibet Relief Fund is the oldest UK based charity working with Tibetans. We support practical grassroots initiatives in education, health, skills training, sustainable livelihoods, rights, culture. Tibetans inform our work, we respond to the needs of Tibetan communities. Our size and structure means we can act quickly and with agility.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£502k

Latest spending

£702k

Registered

1997

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were £112,573, which is above the stated policy target of £90,000. The trustees confirm that adequate resources are available to fund activities for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £113k)

“The reserve policy is to maintain a reserve of at least three months running costs (£90,000 to cover key support costs including rent, staff, premises expenses and services) within unrestricted funds.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Trustees made donations to the charity

“During the year the Trustees made donations to the company totalling £1,450 (2024: £1,620)” — page 18

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Tibet Relief Fund (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Total income

£502k

Total spending

£702k

Cost of raising funds

£73k

Reserves (reported)

£113k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (31/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Greg Christopher Bruno
Hannah Sanders
Jigme Sither
Jonathan Moult
Namgyal Samuels
Nicholas Bulloch
Rowena Lovett

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

Operates in: China · India · Nepal

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/04/2025	£502k	£702k
30/04/2024	£997k	£840k
30/04/2023	£564k	£933k
30/04/2022	£594k	£892k
30/04/2021	£544k	£902k

Common questions

Is THE TIBET RELIEF FUND OF THE UNITED KINGDOM financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that free reserves were £112,573, which is above the stated policy target of £90,000. The trustees confirm that adequate resources are available to fund activities for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE TIBET RELIEF FUND OF THE UNITED KINGDOM?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE TIBET RELIEF FUND OF THE UNITED KINGDOM as a grant recipient include THE FREDDIE GREEN AND FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, THE EVAN CORNISH FOUNDATION, THE TULA TRUST LIMITED, THE FIELDROSE CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
THE FREDDIE GREEN AND FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2022	£5k
THE EVAN CORNISH FOUNDATION	FY2023	£3k
THE TULA TRUST LIMITED	FY2024	£2k
THE FIELDROSE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£0

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE 3 TS CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£50k
CHALFORDS LIMITED	1	£15k
THE SAMUEL STOREY FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£330

Charities like this

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

TIBET WATCH income £182k
THE KANGYUR RINPOCHE FOUNDATION income £464k
SHERABLING-UK LTD. income £503k
THE NEW GROUP OF WORLD SERVERS TRUST FUND income £372k
THE HIMALAYAN TRUST UK CIO income £263k
RELIEFUK LTD income £254k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE TIBET RELIEF FUND OF THE UNITED KINGDOM	£502k	—	above	—	no doubt
TIBET WATCH FY2025	£182k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE KANGYUR RINPOCHE FOUNDATION FY2024	£464k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SHERABLING-UK LTD. FY2025	£503k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE NEW GROUP OF WORLD SERVERS TRUST FUND FY2025	£372k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HIMALAYAN TRUST UK CIO FY2025	£263k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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