THE MINDFULNESS NETWORK

Registered charity 1177800 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Mindfulness-based supervisionMindfulness-based meditation retreatsMindfulness-based coursesMindfulness-based teacher training and professional development

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY: A. PROVIDING MEDITATION RETREATS BASED ON SCIENTIFICALLY-PROVED MINDFULNESS-BASED APPROACHES AND; B. ENSURING THERE IS ACCESS TO AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF WELL-TRAINED AND WELL-SUPPORTED MINDFULNESS-BASED TEACHERS THROUGH SUPERVISING AND ASSISTING IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING OF MINDFULNESS-BASED TEACHERS; AND (2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PROVIDING THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF MINDFULNESS-BASED TEACHERS WITH ACCESS TO QUALITY ASSURED MINDFULNESS-BASED TEACHER TRAINING, MINDFULNESS-BASED SUPERVISION AND MINDFULNESS-BASED RETREATS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £28,353 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £32,425. The trustees identify a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to limited reserves and uncertainty over future income timing and levels.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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

• Debbie Hu
• Dr Avinash Sopan Bansode
• Estrella Fernandez
• Nicholas Mark Hammond

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 MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH).

• MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH) income £63.7m
• SAMADHI RETREAT CENTRE income £238k
• THE MINDFULNESS INITIATIVE income £161k
• LANCASHIRE MIND LIMITED income £2.5m
• MATES IN MIND income £724k
• THE OXFORD MINDFULNESS FOUNDATION income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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