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Registered charity · Manchester

Kagyu Dechen Buddhism

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £460k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.dechen.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Kagyu Dechen Buddhism
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£460k£137k
  • 2024£568k£206k
  • 2023£204k£131k
Earlier years
  • 2022£150k£124k
  • 2021£131k£90k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE BUDDHIST FAITH AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE TEACHINGS OF THE KARMA KAGYU SCHOOL OF BUDDHISM, AS EMBODIED BY HIS HOLINESS KARMAPA THINLEY THAYE DORJE, THE FOURTH KARMA THINLEY RINPOCHE AND LAMA JAMPA THAYE.SUCH ADVANCEMENT SHALL BE UNDER THE SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY AND GUIDANCE OF (I) LAMA JAMPA THAYE AS MASTER OF THE SAKYA AND KARMA KAGYU SCHOOLS OF BUDDHISM (THE “HEAD”), (II) THE FUTURE INCARNATIONS (EACH A "FUTURE INCARNATION”) OF THE HEAD AS IDENTIFIED IN WRITING BY THE PRESENT OR FUTURE HEAD OF THE DROLMA PHODRANG OF THE SAKYA SCHOOL OF BUDDHISM (THE “SAKYA HEAD”), AND (III) ANY TEMPORARY SUCCESSORS APPOINTED IN WRITING FROM TIME TO TIME BY (X) THE HEAD, (Y) A FUTURE INCARNATION OR, IN THE EVENT THE HEAD OR A FUTURE INCARNATION IS UNABLE TO MAKE SUCH APPOINTMENT, (Z) THE SAKYA HEAD.

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.

9 trustees on the board

12.4y median 14y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

9
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 9

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 12Health and social care 1Tech and media 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£568k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

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

0
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
1145791
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/09/2011
Companies House
Company number 07789188 · Active
Contact on the register
01865766036 · manchester@dechen.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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