GAIA HOUSE TRUST

Registered charity 900339 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GAIA HOUSE

Gaia House is an Insight Meditation Centre offering a year round programme of silent retreats with meditation instruction and teachings drawn from the Buddhist traditions.

Objects

(1) TO PRESERVE PROTECT AND ENHANCE PHYSICAL, MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF A CENTRE FOR THE INSTRUCTION AND PRACTICE OF MEDITATION. (2) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION IN MEDITATION.

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 the charity made a surplus of £32,564 in 2025, with total incoming resources of £1,267,425 and total expenditure of £1,244,513. Per the trustees' report, reserves are above the target level, and the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Gaia House (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (78% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW LACEY
• Adva Rodogovsky
• Jean Hodder
• PAMELA SUTHERLAND · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Philpin Rees Stevenson
• Susanna Alyce
• Tim Blanch
• Victoria Murphy

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE GAIA FOUNDATION income £1.7m
• SAMADHI RETREAT CENTRE income £238k
• THE GUHYALOKA TRUST income £108k
• BUDDHA LAND KADAMPA MEDITATION CENTRE LTD income £124k
• VAJRAVARAHI KADAMPA MEDITATION CENTRE LTD income £163k
• Tara International Kadampa Retreat Centre LTD income £591k

Side by side with its peers

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