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Triratna Buddhist Community Surrey

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 270460CroydonReligion
Income£476k2025-12-31
Spending£521ksame year
Spent / received103%5-year average
Size in its cause92nd pctReligion
Registered1976Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Triratna Buddhist Community Surrey is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Croydon. It was registered in January 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Triratna Buddhist Community Surrey reported income of £476k and spending of £521k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £294k to £476k (+62%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Triratna Buddhist Community Surrey sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of the Glascote & Stonydelph Team (£476k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Mary the Virgin, Felpham (£476k) and Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Derby (£476k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.

Income and spending

£0£130k£260k£390k£521k2021 Income: £294,0812021 Spending: £333,07820212022 Income: £485,3332022 Spending: £450,03520222023 Income: £490,8932023 Spending: £504,45320232024 Income: £493,9562024 Spending: £509,08720242025 Income: £475,8032025 Spending: £520,5942025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Provides teaching and facilities for the understanding and practice of Buddhism. We run a public Buddhist Centre on the High Street of Croydon and a residential retreat Centre, known as Rivendell, in East Sussex.

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