NORWICH ZEN BUDDHIST PRIORY

Registered charity 1190154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q99398949 · Wikipedia · also known as NORWICH BUDDHIST PRIORY

NORWICH ZEN BUDDHIST PRIORY PROMOTES THE PRACTICE OF SERENE REFLECTION MEDITATION (SOTO ZEN BUDDHISM). IT OFFERS TEACHING AND SUPPORT AND PROVIDES A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN PRACTISE MEDITATION. THE SCHEDULE INCLUDES MEDITATION DAYS AND RETREATS, CEREMONIES AND TALKS/DISCUSSIONS ON BUDDHIST PRACTICE, AS WELL AS INTRODUCTORY EVENTS. THE PRIORY FUNCTIONS WITHIN THE ORDER OF BUDDHIST CONTEMPLATIVES.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARETO ADVANCE THE BUDDHIST RELIGION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES ANDPRINCIPLES OF THE BUDDHIST FAITH, IN PARTICULAR THE SERENE REFLECTION MEDITATION SCHOOL OF BUDDHISM (ALSO KNOWN AS SOTO ZEN BUDDHISM).TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF MEDITATION AND THE TEACHINGS OF BUDDHISM, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY SUPPORTING AND ENCOURAGING THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF BUDDHIST MEDITATION.EXCEPTING THE STUDY OF RELIGIONS FOR PURPOSES OF COMPARISON, ONLY THE SERENE REFLECTION MEDITATION SCHOOL OF BUDDHISM SHALL BE TAUGHT OR PRACTISED AT THE NORWICH ZEN BUDDHIST PRIORY.

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: Norwich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £62,385, which exceeds its stated policy target of £16,000. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to cover daily running costs and obligations, noting an excess of receipts over payments for the year.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £312k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Gillian Frances Houn Leoma Haguechair
• CHRISTINE MARY YEOMANS
• CHRISTOPHER DAVID LOUKES
• Rev MARY CAROLINE HOUN ALICIA ROWE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Norfolk

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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