SATIPANYA BUDDHIST TRUST

Registered charity 1116668 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal objects of the charity are to advance Buddhism by: teaching the practice of Insight Meditation (Vipassana Bhavana) as taught by the Mahasi Tradition of Burma and the Buddhadhamma (the teaching of the Buddha); providing teacher training in Insight Meditation with the Mahasi Tradition; and furthering the Buddhadhamma and Insight meditation.

Objects

TO ADVANCE BUDDHISM BY:1) TEACHING THE PRACTICE OF INSIGHT MEDITATION (VIPASSANA BHAVANA) AS TAUGHT BY THE MAHASI TRADITION OF BURMA AND THE BUDDHADHAMMA (THE TEACHINGS OF BUDDHA)2) PROVIDING TEACHER TRAINING IN INSIGHT MEDITATION WITH THE MAHASI TRADITION; AND3) FURTHERING THE BUDDHADHAMMA AND INSIGHT MEDITATION

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £82,631 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total income of £136,571 against total expenditure of £53,941. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,228,799, which is significantly above the stated policy target of £30,000. The charity qualified for audit exemption as a small company.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £850k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Edward Tibbychair
• Gwen Sanderson
• Michael Thomas Vincent Regan
• Noirin Sheahan
• Richard Philip Benjamin

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ENGLISH SANGHA TRUST LIMITED.

• THE ENGLISH SANGHA TRUST LIMITED income £2.2m
• SAYAGYI U BA KHIN MEMORIAL TRUST income £791k
• VIPASSANA TRUST (DHAMMA SUKHAKARI) income £546k
• THE BUDDHIST SOCIETY TRUST income £257k
• THERAVADA MONASTIC TRUST income £2.0m
• VIPASSANA TRUST income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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