Manchester Buddhist Centre

How the Centre is run

On the ground, the Centre Team, other employ­ees and teach­ers imple­ment the vis­ion of the Board of Trustees.

For more on how the Centre is run, go to Who Runs the MBC.

Char­it­able status

Manchester Buddhist Centre is a registered char­ity (char­ity reg. no. 514937).

For more inform­a­tion about the char­ity see our entry on the Char­ity Com­mis­sion website

For our fin­an­cial reports please see our Char­ity Com­mis­sion overview

Busi­nesses

Within the Buddhist Centre are sev­eral fin­an­cially inde­pend­ent sep­ar­ate businesses

• Body­wise Nat­ural Health Centre — 2nd floor
• Breath­works Liv­ing Well Courses — 3rd floor office
• Earth Cafe — Basement
• The Clear Vis­ion Trust — 3rd floor office

His­tory

Foun­ded in 1977, Manchester Buddhist Centre has taught the essen­tial prin­ciples of med­it­a­tion and Buddhism to thou­sands of Man­cuni­ans. In July 1996, we moved from Chorlton to Turner Street. Once a derel­ict Vic­torian ware­house, it is now a place of sim­pli­city and beauty.

Vis­ion

The ex-warehouse was chosen in the up-and-coming cul­tural north­ern quarter to be access­ible to more people. It was designed to main­tain many of the ori­ginal his­tor­ical fea­tures like the brick­work, stair­case and huge win­dows. The con­ver­sion was sens­it­ively done, using recycled mater­i­als wherever pos­sible, to add char­ac­ter and beauty. Dur­ing the con­ver­sion pro­ject, which was mainly car­ried out by volun­teers, the build­ing became a sym­bol for internal trans­form­a­tion, as the extern­als were stripped back and made anew.