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Registered charity · Hereford

Vipassana Trust

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.dipa.dhamma.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Vipassana Trust
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.1m
  • 2024£1.3m£1.1m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.0m£925k
  • 2021£667k£666k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION THROUGH PROMOTION OF THE TEACHINGS OF THE PRINCIPLES ESTABLISHED BY THE LATE SAYAJI U BA KHIN, THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF MEDITATION AND OF THE TECHNIQUES, OF DEVELOPING CONCENTRATION, INSIGHT AND HIGHER STANDARDS OF MORALITY AS ORIGINALLY TAUGHT BY THE BUDDHA THROUGH THE PUBLIC DISSEMINATION GENERALLY OF THE SAID TEACHINGS AND IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE BOARD MEMBERS SHALL THINK FIT, PROVIDED THAT ANY SERVICES BE PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE.

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.

13 trustees on the board

4.4y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

12
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 13

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 12Tech and media 2Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • 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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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£1.4m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

16.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 29.6 in 2021

2 from 3 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
327798
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 APRIL 1988 AS AMENDED 25TH JUNE 1990, AND AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION OF 14 JANUARY 1996, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION OF 1 OCTOBER 2000.
Companies House
Company number 02246810 · Active
Contact on the register
01989730234 · info@dipa.dhamma.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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