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Registered charity · London

The London Buddhist Centre

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Alison Ticher.

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Religious Activities
Where
Throughout London, Essex, Kent
Website
www.lbc.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1968

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.0m£2.1m
  • 2024£2.0m£1.9m
  • 2023£2.2m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.2m£974k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government contracts 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE BUDDHIST RELIGION: IN PARTICULAR 1. TO ENCOURAGE MEMBERS AND OTHERS TO LIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA. 2. TO SUPPORT ORDAINED MEMBERS OF THE WESTERN BUDDHIST ORDER AND OTHER DULY ORDAINED BUDDHISTS, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE FRIENDS OF THE LBC. 3) TO MAINTAIN CLOSE COMMUNICATION WITH AND WORK UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE WESTERN BUDDHIST ORDER AND IN CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER GROUPS WITH THE SAME OBJECTS. 4) TO USE APPLICATIONS OF THE BUDDHA'S TEACHING TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF ALL.

Grants received

4 grants · £79,723 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £79,723 (4 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002022-04-22
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £60,7232019-02-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £5,0002006-02-22
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,0002004-11-21
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

5.2y median 4.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

1
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 9Religious Activities 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Arts and leisure 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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£2.0m 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.

3.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 34.6 in 2021

47 from 29 in 2021
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
255420
Status
Registered
Governing document
RULES ADOPTED 31ST MAY 1968 AS AMENDED ON 14TH JULY 1968, 12TH JUNE 1975, 19TH JULY 1977, 20TH AUGUST 1980, 1ST OCTOBER 1981, 16TH OCTOBER 1986, 7TH MARCH 1997, 12 MARCH 2007 AND 11 JULY 2007. as amended on 25 Jun 2018
Contact on the register
02089811225 · contact@lbc.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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