THE MINDFULNESS INITIATIVE

Registered charity 1179834 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Mindfulness Initiative conducts research and educates leaders, policy makers, service commissioners and the public about the theory and practice of mindfulness and compassion training. It works with legislators around the world to help them make capacities of heart and mind serious considerations of public policy, and explore how mindfulness training may improve political discourse.

Objects

“TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE PRACTICE AND SCIENCE OF MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION TRAINING, AND IN FURTHERANCE: I) TO SUPPLY EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND OTHER SERVICES TO MEMBERS OF THE UK PARLIAMENT AND CIVIL SERVICE TO HELP THEM INQUIRE INTO THE PRACTICE, SCIENCE AND BENEFITS OF MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION TRAINING WITHIN PUBLIC SERVICES AND POLICY MAKING, AND EXTEND SUCH EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND OTHER SERVICES TO THE LEGISLATIVE SYSTEMS OF OTHER COUNTRIES. II) TO EDUCATE LEADERS, PROFESSIONALS AND SERVICE COMMISSIONERS ABOUT THE PRACTICE, SCIENCE AND BENEFITS OF MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION TRAINING IN ALL SECTORS. III) TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INTO MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION TRAINING PROGRAMMES OF ALL KINDS, AND MAKE THIS RESEARCH AND TRAINING ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC. IV) TO SUPPORT THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF MINDFULNESS, COMPASSION AND OTHER CONTEMPLATIVE MIND-TRAINING PROGRAMMES BY COOPERATING WITH MINDFULNESS ORGANISATIONS, ACADEMICS AND PRACTITIONERS INTERNATIONALLY, INCLUDING BY CONVENING AND FACILITATING CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND OTHER GATHERINGS TO SHARE INFORMATION AND COORDINATE RESEARCH

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a deficit of £10,093 for the year, resulting in free reserves of £10,806, which falls below the trustees' stated policy target of £50,000. Despite this shortfall and the deficit, the trustees report no material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Crook
• Kareen Griffiths
• Richard Edwards

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

Operates in: Australia · Austria · Belgium · Bhutan · Canada · Croatia · Denmark · Estonia · Finland · France · Germany · Greece

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MINDFULNESS NETWORK.

• THE MINDFULNESS NETWORK income £564k
• THE COMPASSIONATE MIND FOUNDATION income £939k
• THE OXFORD MINDFULNESS FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• SAMADHI RETREAT CENTRE income £238k
• MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH) income £63.7m
• THE TRUE ATHLETE PROJECT LTD income £264k

Side by side with its peers

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