TISARANA VIHARA ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 328075 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BUDDHIST WELFARE ASSOCIATION

Advancement of Theravada Buddhism in the UK through the establishment of a monastery for Buddhist monks who promote the practice of Buddhism in the Burmese culture by means of connected activities and religious instruction

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THEREVADA BUDDHISM IN THE UNITED KINGDOM; (B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE BURMESE CULTURE AND BUDDHISM AS PRACTICED IN THE BURMESE CULTURE; (C) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS ARISING THEREFROM AND OF OLD AGE AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING OF PERSONS WHO ARE ADHERENTS OF THE BUDDHISM FAITH.

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.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £16,644 for the year ended 5 April 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £1,100,702. The trustees consider it prudent to maintain adequate reserves to cover contractual commitments and working capital, with no stated specific numerical target. The charity has no employees and relies on trustee governance without any disclosed related-party transactions or trustee remuneration.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2025 (received 03/03/2026, 26 days after the 05/02/2026 due date); year ending 05/04/2023 (received 21/02/2024, 16 days after the 05/02/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Venerable Ashin Janakachair
• Dr Tin Tin Win
• Dr Wilbert Hoe
• Dr Win Win Maw
• Justin King · trustee of 1 other charity
• Khin Kyaw Nadarajah
• Mon Mon Tun
• Nine Linn Htet
• Nyi Nyi

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 THE DHAMMADHIPATI VIHARA (LONDON).

• THE DHAMMADHIPATI VIHARA (LONDON) income £69k
• THERAVADA MONASTIC TRUST income £2.0m
• SASANA RAMSI MYANMAR BUDDHIST CENTRE income £64k
• MINISTRY OF NIRVANA UK income £59k
• TRIRATNA SARANA income £1.6m
• INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THERAVADA BUDDHISM UK income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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