SAYAGYI U BA KHIN MEMORIAL TRUST

Registered charity 280134 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SAYAJI U BA KHIN MEMORIAL TRUST

Provides facilities for the study and practice of Theravada Buddhism and Buddhist meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin and Mother Sayamagyi

Objects

TO ADVANCE THERAVADA BUDDHIST RELIGION THROUGH PROMOTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES ESTABLISHED BY THE LATE SAYAJI U BA KHIN THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF THE TECHNIQUES OF DEVELOPING CONCENTRATION INSIGHT AND HIGHER STANDARDS OF MORALITY AS ORIGINALLY TAUGHT BY THE BUDDHA THROUGH THE PUBLIC DISSEMINATION GENERALLY OF THE TEACHINGS OF BUDDHA.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total assets were £2,303,526, with unrestricted assets of £1,559,412, which is comfortably above the required income reserve level of £115,000. The charity holds £110,000 in a property reserve for repairs and maintenance, and cash balances in the general fund were £153,175. The trustees report that systems are in place to manage risks, including monitoring reduced student numbers due to travel costs.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

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

• ARABELLA LILIAN VIRGINIA DELAHUNTY
• DAVID FORBES BORRIE
• Dr Amitabh Dwivedi
• Dr CHRISTIAN KARL ERNST WUNSCHIK
• Dr WILLIAM PRUITT
• FRANZ CHRISTOF NEUNER
• JOSEPH ALOISIUS JOOSTEN
• James Harry Greenhalgh CITP MBCS · trustee of 1 other charity
• KAYE FRANCES HULENA
• KEVIN GERALD DELAHUNTY
• KYAW KYAW CHITTIN
• NEIL PAVITT
• NICOLA SALLY NEWTON
• OLIVER WATERHOUSE
• PROF KEDAR NATH DWIVEDI
• ROY MILLMAN
• Roger Stanz Newton
• SIMON JUGHARD
• Sergiu Matei
• THERESE DORA KELLER
• VIRGINIA CUNYNGHAME JUDKINS
• VLADISLAV MALCHEVSKYI

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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

• THERAVADA MONASTIC TRUST income £2.0m
• SATIPANYA BUDDHIST TRUST income £123k
• LONDON MINDFULNESS MEDITATION CENTRE income £166k
• THE THAI-BRITISH BUDDHIST (WAT MAHATHAT TEMPLE) TRUST income £152k
• BUDDHA LAND KADAMPA MEDITATION CENTRE LTD income £124k
• THE BUDDHIST SOCIETY TRUST income £257k

Side by side with its peers

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