Registered charity (CIO) · Stowmarket

Vipassana Trust (Dhamma Sukhakari)

Vipassana Trust (Dhamma Sukhakari) is a registered charity (number 1175672) based in Stowmarket, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Aditi Gandhi since 2020. Latest income £546k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as Dhamma Sukhakari Trust (Charity Commission)

10 trustees
Income £546k (2025)

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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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: Education/training
Where: Throughout England And Wales
Website: www.sukhakari.dhamma.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 2017

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£546k£373k
2024£464k£322k
2023£399k£306k

Earlier years

2022£318k£271k
2021£180k£173k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:• ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND RUNNING THE VIPASSANA MEDITATION CENTRE CALLED DHAMMA SUKHAKARI.• PROVIDING COURSES IN VIPASSANA MEDITATION AS TAUGHT BY S.N. GOENKA IN THE TRADITION OF SAYAGYI U BA KHIN.• DISSEMINATING, PROMOTING, PROVIDING FOR, OR OTHERWISE SUPPORTING MEDITATION AS TAUGHT BY S.N. GOENKA.

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.

10 trustees on the board

4.2y median 4y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.2y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 10

Gaps to watch

No commercial or business experience on the board
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£464k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 1175672
Status: Registered
Governing document: CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 10 Nov 2017
Contact on the register: 01449 833080 · info@sukhakari.dhamma.org
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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