ALFOXTON PARK TRUST

Registered charity 1189214 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ISIPATANA

Alfoxton Park is a Grade II listed building of national importance to the arts as the home of William Wordsworth when he and Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the landmark 'Lyrical Ballads'. We are undertaking a major program of heritage restoration and environmentally-exemplary renovation works with a view to opening it as a heritage attraction, literary events venue and residential retreat centre.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE BUDDHIST RELIGION, IN PARTICULAR: (A) TO ENCOURAGE MEMBERS AND OTHERS TO LIVE ETHICAL LIVES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA, (B) TO SUPPORT ORDAINED MEMBERS OF THE TRIRATNA BUDDHIST ORDER AND OTHER DULY ORDAINED BUDDHISTS(C) TO MAINTAIN CLOSE COMMUNICATION WITH AND WORK UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE TRIRATNA BUDDHIST ORDER AND IN COOPERATION 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.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £101,839 against a trustee policy target of approximately £37,000 (six months' expenditure), indicating reserves are above the stated policy. The charity reported a net income of £100,647 and confirmed it is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Alfoxton Park Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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 £5.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dh. Xxxx Jayarajachair
• Philip Shann
• Robin Collett
• Xxxx Lokabandhu · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• THE WORDSWORTH TRUST income £2.2m
• COTSWOLD LAKES TRUST income £582k
• WESTON PARK TRUST income £142k
• THE GATTON TRUST LIMITED income £173k
• THE BLAKE COTTAGE TRUST income £178k
• THE PARHAM PARK TRUST (1984) income £983k

Side by side with its peers

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