Adhisthana Trust

Registered charity 1142673 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TRIRATNA PRECEPTORS' COLLEGE TRUST

The charity advances the Buddhist religion by overseeing the training and ordination of new members of the Triratna Buddhist Order and by making the teaching of Buddhist as presented by Urgyen Sangharakshita available on an international basis to the general public. The charity operates a retreat and study centre located in Herefordshire open to anyone interested in exploring Buddhism.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF BUDDHISM FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:- 1)ENCOURAGING MEMBERS AND OTHERS TO LIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHING OF THE BUDDHA; 2)SUPPORTING MEMBERS OF THE TRIRATNA BUDDHIST ORDER AND OTHER DULY ORDAINED BUDDHISTS, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY; 3)MAINTAINING CLOSE COMMUNICATION WITH AND WORK IN CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER GROUPS WITH THE SAME OBJECTS.

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: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with an unrestricted surplus of £181k, boosting its unrestricted cash reserves to approximately £829k. This figure significantly exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £100k, which represents three months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirm that sufficient funds are available to cover events through 2026 and beyond, with no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Slade & Cooper Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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 07508588

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.

• DILLEY, Hana — director, appointed 25/11/2024on trustee list
• THAKKAR, Dishir Mahendra — director, appointed 25/11/2024on trustee list
• BRODIE, Timothy James — director, appointed 19/07/2022on trustee list
• LOVERING, Rachel — director, appointed 17/12/2015on trustee list
• GRAY, Nicholas Arthur Berks — secretary, appointed 01/05/2014

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy James Brodiechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bernard Murphy
• Dishir Thakkar · trustee of 2 other charities
• Hana Dilley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Lovering

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TRIRATNA COLLEGE OF PUBLIC PRECEPTORS.

• TRIRATNA COLLEGE OF PUBLIC PRECEPTORS income £211k
• TRIRATNA BUDDHIST COMMUNITY IN BRISTOL income £111k
• TRIRATNA BUDDHIST COMMUNITY (NOTTINGHAM) income £110k
• THE ABHAYARATNA TRUST income £227k
• BIRMINGHAM BUDDHIST CENTRE income £427k
• TRIRATNA BUDDHIST COMMUNITY (IPSWICH) income £78k

Side by side with its peers

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