The Centre’s income, spending and activities are detailed in our annual return to the Charity Commission
This is a summary of the latest twelve month period — 2011. 2012’s figures should appear in summer 2013
- Download the full report
Where did our money come from?
- Courses and events — £49,348.68
- Bookshop — £54,924.94
- Donations — £77,929.82
- Rent — £89,377.99
- Room hire — £13,523.27
- Total income — £285,104.70
Where did the money go?
- Staffing — £109,160.63
- Bookshop stock — £27,886.38
- Services and utilities — £28,196.45
- Maintenance — £14,153.82
- Event costs — £8,718.76
- Loans, mortgages, interest and charges — £43,828.11
- Insurance — £10,068.83
- Other expenses (Publicity, training, accountancy, health and safety, supplies, IT and equipment etc) — £20,904.50
- Total expenses — £262,917.48
Reserves, capital and outstanding loans
- At the end of 2011, the Centre had few reserves and no capital item fund
- £288,875 was outstanding in mortgages and loans
Who did we help?
- 28,000 people visited the Centre
- 4,700 people learned about Buddhism and meditation
- 2,600 school students visited and learned about Buddhism
- 88 people studied here each week
- 1 person was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order
- 64 people were training for ordination
- 25 people became Mitras
Dayamala, the Centre’s Chair, comments:
I am really pleased that we had surplus income over expenditure in 2011 as finances had been a real concern for us at the beginning of the year and the Trustees decided to have a moratorium on all but essential expenditure for the first half of year.
We also addressed our financial position, including:
- reassessing the income from businesses on rent and utility charges
- making savings on staff costs
- developing a fundraising group
- several fundraising projects
- reducing the frequency of our rubbish collection
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