SAMUDRA BUDDHIST CENTRE

Registered charity 1081470 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To increase the Buddhist Faith under the spiritual guidance of the elected General Spiritual Director of the NKT-IKBU as a member of the union of Kadampa Buddhist Centres

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BUDDHIST FAITH UNDER THE SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE OF THE ELECTED GENERAL SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR OF THE NEW KADAMPA TRADITION - INTERNATIONAL KADAMPA BUDDHIST UNION PRINCIPALLY THROUGH ACTIVITIES OF TEACHING, STUDY, PRACTICE AND THE OBSERVANCE OF MORAL DISCIPLINE ALL WITHIN THE MAHAYANA BUDDHIST TRADITION OF ATISHA AND JE TSONGKAPA AS TAUGHT BY VENERABLE GESHE KELSANG GYATSO, THE FOUNDEROF THE NEW KADAMPA TRADITION - INTERNATIONAL KADAMPA BUDDHIST UNION, THROUGH THE CONTINUOUS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE THREE NEW KADAMPA TRADITION STUDY PROGRAMMES: THE GENERAL PROGRAMME, THE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME, AND THE TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMME, ALL AS DEFINED IN SCHEDULE A OF THE MEMORANDUM.

Area of benefit: DERBYSHIRE

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 reported a net profit of £6,905 for the year ended 28 February 2025, with total income of £41,322. Total funds increased to £156,042, which exceeds the trustees' stated reserves policy target of covering up to six months of overhead expenditure. The charity maintains unrestricted funds of £156,042 with no restricted funds.

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 4 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.

• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03928968 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• O'BRIEN, Frederick Richard — director, appointed 23/11/2024on trustee list
• TOMS, Terence — director, appointed 23/11/2024on trustee list
• COWING, Stephen Paul — director, appointed 10/11/2023on trustee list
• MATTHEWS, Dawn — secretary, appointed 08/11/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £220k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Frederick O'Brien
• Stephen Cowing · trustee of 1 other charity
• Terence Toms

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

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