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Vivekarama Dhamma Fellowship

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1126900SunderlandReligion
Income£31k2025-03-31
Spending£36ksame year
Spent / received101%5-year average
Size in its cause40th pctReligion
Registered2008Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Vivekarama Dhamma Fellowship is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sunderland. It was registered in November 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Vivekarama Dhamma Fellowship reported income of £31k and spending of £36k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £22k to £31k (+42%), an average of +9.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Vivekarama Dhamma Fellowship sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rochdale Evangelical Church (£31k), Grace Independent Baptist Church (£31k) and Elim Baptist Church (£31k).

Income and spending

£0£11k£21k£32k£43k2021 Income: £21,9462021 Spending: £20,16920212022 Income: £19,4852022 Spending: £35,93120222023 Income: £24,0842023 Spending: £15,42820232024 Income: £42,8612024 Spending: £33,42020242025 Income: £31,1042025 Spending: £35,9622025
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

  • Other 100%

In the charity's own words

To practise, propagate and perpetuate Buddhism and in particular Theravada Buddhism.

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