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Registered charity · Cambridge

The Windhorse Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £519k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Linked company
The Windhorse Trust
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£519k£975k
  • 2024£500k£434k
  • 2023£485k£538k
Earlier years
  • 2022£341k£228k
  • 2021£401k£476k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE BUDDHIST RELIGION, IN PARTICULAR:(I) TO ENCOURAGE MEMBERS AND OTHERS TO LIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA.(II) TO SUPPORT ORDAINED MEMBERS OF THE WESTERN BUDDHIST ORDER AND OTHER DULY ORDAINED BUDDHISTS, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE COMPANY.(III) TO MAINTAIN CLOSE COMMUNICATION WITH AND WORK UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE WESTERN BUDDHIST ORDER AND IN CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER CHARITIES OR CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS WITH THE SAME OBJECTS; 2. TO RELIEVE POVERTY; 3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC; AND 4. TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

5 trustees on the board

4y median 4y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

5
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Religious Activities 4Education/training 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 6Education 3Tech and media 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£519k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

18.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

3
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1098979
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18 FEBRUARY 1986 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 14 MARCH 1986, 1 MAY 1986, 24 MARCH 1993, 25 NOVEMBER 2005 AND 1 JULY 2006
Companies House
Company number 01990430 · Active
Contact on the register
07818410677 · info@windhorsetrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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