THE OXFORD MINDFULNESS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1122517 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OXFORD MINDFULNESS CENTRE, THE OXFORD MINDFULNESS CENTRE

The OMC works:1. on high-level academic research into achieving psychological balance through mindfulness (as recommended, e.g. by NICE for depression); 2. on academically rigorous application of those practices in therapy, CPD etc;3. on training others to research and apply those practices; and specifically4. on promoting and administering such activity in Oxford University.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £511,786, which the Trustees consider sufficient to cover approximately 17 months of fixed salary costs and exceed their policy target of three months. Per the Trustees' report, the charity recorded a surplus of £169,918 for the year, supported by significant donations, although a deficit is forecast for the following year due to planned investment in new digital platforms.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hazlewoods LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Claire Kelly — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Sir John Ritblat Family Foundation — “Support from The Sir John Ritblat Family Foundation improves the outreach and impact of mindfulness on a global scale.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DYLAN ALEXANDER SCHLOSBERG
• Dr Thorsten Barnhofer
• Dr William Boland
• Hilary Walker
• John Edward Ford · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ozge Tigli Tasli
• Patrick Kozakiewicz
• Yvonne Keairns

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

Operates in: Belgium · Brazil · China · Czech Republic · Germany · Greece · Hong Kong · Hungary · Ireland · Japan · Mexico · Norway

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OXFORDSHIRE MIND.

• OXFORDSHIRE MIND income £7.0m
• THE COMPASSIONATE MIND FOUNDATION income £939k
• THE MINDFULNESS NETWORK income £564k
• THE MINDFULNESS INITIATIVE income £161k
• SAMADHI RETREAT CENTRE income £238k
• Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire (CPSL) Mind Limited income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

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