Kadampa Meditation Centre (KMC) Southampton

Analysis

Kadampa Meditation Centre (KMC) Southampton is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Southampton. It was registered in November 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03048918). It says it provides human resources, provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Kadampa Meditation Centre (KMC) Southampton reported income of £163k and spending of £168k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £80k to £163k (+104%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Kadampa Meditation Centre (KMC) Southampton sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of All Saints, Kings Langley (£163k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Mary and St Michael Trumpington (£163k) and Bethel Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ Bristol CIO (£163k).