Kadampa Meditation Centre Lancaster

Analysis

Kadampa Meditation Centre Lancaster is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancaster. It was registered in July 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05094904). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Kadampa Meditation Centre Lancaster reported income of £126k and spending of £25k, leaving 80% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £25k to £126k (+401%), an average of +50% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 230%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Kadampa Meditation Centre Lancaster sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Friends of Hereford Cathedral (£126k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Evangelist Hedge End (£126k) and German-Speaking Lutheran Church in East Anglia (Previously Known As Hamburg Lutheran Church & German Lutheran Church in Cambridge and East Anglia) (£126k).