The East Midlands Buddhist Association

Analysis

The East Midlands Buddhist Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leicester. It was registered in February 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The East Midlands Buddhist Association reported income of £100k and spending of £26k, leaving 74% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £12k to £100k (+766%), an average of +72% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 159%. Over the whole period it spent 40% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The East Midlands Buddhist Association sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Aspire Church (£100k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Overbury with Teddington, Alstone & Little Washbourne with Beckford & Ashton Under Hill (£100k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Salisbury Plain (£100k).