TARALOKA

Registered charity 274500 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF THE WESTERN BUDDHIST ORDER (TARALOKA), FRIENDS OF THE WESTERN BUDDHIST ORDER (WANSTEAD), FWBO TARALOKA, TARALOKA - TARALOKA WOMENS RETREAT CENTRE, TARALOKA RETREAT CENTRE

We run a rural Buddhist Retreat Centre, offering residential retreats on Buddhist meditation and Buddhist teaching. We also run weekends and courses in city based Buddhist Centres on request. Local schools ask us to talk to their pupils about Buddhism and some come to us for an weekend experience of retreat living. Our main teachers are all ordained Buddhists with the Triratna Community.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE BUDDHIST RELIGION IN PARTICULAR: (A) TO ENCOURAGE MEMBERS AND OTHERS TO LIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHING OF THE BUDDHA. (B) TO SUPPORT ORDAINED MEMBERS OF THE TRIRATNA BUDDHIST ORDER AND OTHER DULY ORDAINED BUDDHISTS, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CENTRE. (C) TO MAINTAIN CLOSE COMMUNICATION WITH AND WORK UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE TRIRATNA BUDDHIST ORDER AND IN CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER GROUPS WITH THE SAME OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds were maintained at £1,068,261, which is above the stated policy target of £100,000. The charity reported a net expenditure of £27,711 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £1,095,972 to £1,068,261.

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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Trustees · trustee networks

• TANIA ROEchair
• Ann Cronin
• Charlotte Burbidge
• MS Hazel BAKER
• MS RACHEL JANE LOVERING
• ROSEMARY DENYS
• Virginia Gail Carter

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 Tara International Kadampa Retreat Centre LTD.

• Tara International Kadampa Retreat Centre LTD income £591k
• TRIRATNA SARANA income £1.6m
• TRIRATNA BUDDHIST COMMUNITY SURREY income £494k
• LAM RIM BUDDHIST CENTRE income £127k
• SAMADHI RETREAT CENTRE income £238k
• BIRMINGHAM BUDDHIST CENTRE income £427k

Side by side with its peers

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