Registered charity · Hexham
Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey
- 6 trustees
- Income £945k (2025)
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
- Religious Activities
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.throssel.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1977
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£945k£209k
- 2024£199k£199k
- 2023£181k£191k
Earlier years
- 2022£179k£171k
- 2021£165k£172k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE THE PRACTICE, TEACHING, SPREADING AND GENERAL ADVANCEMENT OF THE SERENE REFLECTION MEDITATION SCHOOL OF BUDDHISM (SOTO ZEN BUDDHISM) AS EXEMPLIFIED WITHIN THE ORDER OF BUDDHIST CONTEMPLATIVES.
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Rev CDH Roland Watson since 2013
- Rev Lambert Tuffrey since 2018
- Rev MAX Benjamin Cerda Alexander since 2018
- Rev Peter Michael Bonati
- Rev Stephen Berwyn Watson since 2019
- Rev Tara MAY Bailey since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Rev CDH Roland Watson since 2013
- Rev Lambert Tuffrey since 2018
- Rev MAX Benjamin Cerda Alexander since 2018
- Rev Stephen Berwyn Watson since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Rev CDH Roland Watson since 2013
- Rev Lambert Tuffrey since 2018
- Rev Stephen Berwyn Watson since 2019
- Rev Tara MAY Bailey since 2022
Portfolio (2)
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
52.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 506094
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 24 JANUARY 1977 AS AMENDED ON 20 MARCH 1998 AND 17 APRIL 2008.AS AMENDED ON 17/02/2015 as amended on 14 Nov 2019 as amended on 01 Mar 2022
- Contact on the register
- 01434345204 · gd@throssel.org.uk
- 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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