INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY (MANCHESTER)

Registered charity 1097502 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IBPS (MANCHESTER) LIMITED, MANCHESTER FO GUANG SHAN TEMPLE

The charity holds regular Sunday services, Monthly Lamp Offering Services and Special Dharma Services. It provides counselling on a variety of subjects and conducts Chinese courses. It also performs marriages and funeral services.

Objects

THE PROPAGATING OF BUDDHISM.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £134,348 on unrestricted funds, bringing the total unrestricted reserves to £484,447. The trustees note that the financial position is strengthened by restricted funds and advance donations, despite operational difficulties including having no bank account for half the year. The charity has a stated reserves policy target of £1,100,000, comprising a £1,000,000 fundraising target and £100,000 for one year's operational expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Complaints handling
• Investment
• Risk management
• Volunteer management

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~6.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Chueh Yann Shihchair
• Fong Goh Lee

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Conwy · Liverpool City · Manchester City · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · Salford City · Stockport · Trafford · Wigan

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY (UK).

• INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST PROGRESS SOCIETY (UK) income £660k
• NAN PING SPIRITUAL CULTIVATION ORGANIZATION OF THE UK income £1.0m
• COMMAND PRAYER CENTRE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL income £209k
• MANCHESTER BUDDHIST CENTRE income £271k
• BIRMINGHAM BUDDHIST CENTRE income £427k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT JOHN FARNCOMBE income £183k

Side by side with its peers

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