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.

Objects

4.1 The Charity’s Objects are: 4.1.1 to relieve need particularly amongst those who are Tibetan, ethnic Tibetans, peoples of Himalayan origin, and/or speak the Tibetan language and those who are refugees from the territories of Tibet and other areas administered or claimed by the People’s Republic of China from the areas bordering on Tibet (the ‘beneficiaries”).4.1.2 to provide for the education of the beneficiaries;4.1.3 to promote sustainable development for the public benefit by:4.1.3.1 the relief of poverty and the improvement of the conditions of life in socially and economically disadvantaged communities; and4.1.3.2 promotion of a sustainable means of achieving economic growth and regeneration which meets the needs of the present and future beneficiaries.4.1.4 to advance or preserve the culture and arts of the beneficiaries by educating the general public on, and promoting a greater awareness of, the culture, beliefs, traditions, language and way of life of the beneficiaries.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

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

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

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

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

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)

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
• 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

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Known funders

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

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