FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPING COMPASSION AND WISDOM

Registered charity 1110500 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UNIVERSAL COMPASSION AND WISDOM FOR PEACE

To provide resources, training and a supportive infrastructure that help people to develop their capacity for compassion and wisdom - to be kind and wise. The first initiative created by the charity was a programme called the '16 Guidelines for a Happy Life.'

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING OR FACILITATING THE PROVISION OF LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, FACILITIES, TOOLS AND RESOURCES THAT WILL ENABLE ANYONE, ANYWHERE TO DEVELOP THEIR COMPASSION AND WISDOM AND CONTRIBUTE TO PEACE IN THE WORLD

Area of benefit: NATIONAL & OVERSEAS

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £6,331 for the year ended 31 December 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £66,879, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £30,000 (equivalent to three months of running costs). The trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with sufficient funds for the next 12 months.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05335841

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.

• SEEDHOUSE, Lynn Susan — director, appointed 27/06/2023on trustee list
• CUTTS, Daniel Stanley — director, appointed 28/09/2020on trustee list
• STRÖM, Eric Martin — director, appointed 26/10/2019not on trustee list
• LEE, Oi Loon — director, appointed 23/12/2009on trustee list
• RIDLEY, Wendy Kathleen — director, appointed 18/01/2005on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• OI LOON LEEchair
• Daniel Stanley Cutts
• Eric Martin Strom
• Lynn Susan Seedhouse
• WENDY RIDLEY

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

Operates in: Lambeth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COMPASS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION.

• THE COMPASS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION income £0
• THE COMPASSIONATE MIND FOUNDATION income £939k
• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k
• COMPASSION UK CHRISTIAN CHILD DEVELOPMENT income £53.2m
• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
• KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION FOUNDATION income £44k

Side by side with its peers

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