2022-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	for theperiod	for theperiod	for theperiod
From	Period start date			To	Period end date
	01	04	2021		31	03	2022

Section A

Reference and administration details

Charity name UK Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door Buddhist Charity Foundation

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1165696

Charity's principal address 25C Claughton Road Plaistow London Postcode E13 9PN

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any)
	Tze Wei Siow	Chair	Acted from 2nd Dec 18 upto date
	Tuck Heng Cheah	Trustee	Acted from 2nd Dec 18 - 31st Jan 22
	Guat Faung Eyu	Trustee	Acted from 2nd Dec 18 upto date
	Wei Kee Ng	Trustee	Acted from 1st Feb 22 up to date

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name		Address
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Section B Structure,		governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Type of governing document	Constitution
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted	CIO
(eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods	Appointed
(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

Youmay chooseto include additional information, where relevant, about:  policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;  the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;  relationship with any related parties;  trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Policies and Procedures adopted for training of Trustees:- 1. Assisted by one of the Volunteer Assistant Trustees who qualified ACCA, regular training was provided by her job. Structure and network with which the charity works:- 1. All Trustees including One Chair Trustee and all volunteers are unpaid, regular volunteers travel from and to events outside London will be paid by charity. 2. Regular hosting Free Vegetarian Tasting Event, Workshops provided all free to public and our community. 3. Liaising with local community centres on a regular basis. Eventhough the temple has been reopened on August 2021, but we were still slow down the activity or restricted on capacity if running an event based on pandemic circumstances. Relationship with Related Party:- Majority Trustees give significant donations to the charity and there is no reimbursement of expenses occurred for this year end. Major Risk and procedures to extenuate it:- 1. Cash Donation would be scrutinized regularly by Trustees, review on monthly basis normally would be two volunteers on daily duty. 2. Two signatures would be required on the Day Duty Log Book, CCTV in place wireless connected to chair trustee's phone. Only trained and trustworthy volunteers would have access to cash box. Any cash donation would be deposit right on the next dayor the dayafter into the bank

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charity account by duty volunteer apart from cash flow.

Section C Objectives and activities -Promoting the teaching, study, practice and practical application of Buddhism and Guan Yin Citta in the UK. Summary of the objects of the -Organising public events and facilitating the public dissemination and charity set out in its interchange of ideas and information about the practice of Buddhism. governing document -Promoting activities to foster racial and religious harmony, equality, diversity and peace.

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The charity activities are greater than last year since we have re-located our new temple in Plaistow :-

• The new location is more accessible especially for elderly people including transportation and visitors attend more frequently than the previous location. Both the elderly and members who live nearby or around London prefer visiting the temple.

• Beside hosting online classes,we occasionally running Buddhist teaching classes for the children in the new temple, and aim to do so Summary of the main regurlarly if possible. activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to - After the new temple opened on August 2021, we have ran 5 small these objects (include within gatherings including vegetarian events for the members and local this section the statutory community sessions to exchange of ideas and information about the declaration that trustees have practice of Buddhism. Members who live in further afield may attend had regard to the guidance these sessions online also. issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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Contributions received from public, members and volunteers are strictly monitored. No investment should be made from donations under any circumstances.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

• policy on grantmaking;

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

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Achievements and performance

Section D

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

After relocated to the new temple, we have hosted 5 events over the 7 months as per below: 11/11/2021 to 25/11/2021 - Master Lu Condolences Period 14/11/2021 - Temple 6th Anniversary 01/02/2022 - Chinese Lunar New Year 15/02/2022 - Lantern Festival 21/03/2022 - Guan Yin Bodhisattva Birthday

FREE Vegetarian event aims to educate the public regarding the benefits of a healthy diet. This type of event is a good opportunity to promote temple activities and enhance religious harmony, equality, diversity and peace to other local communities as well as new members. We aim to do these type of event regularly in the near futurer.

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Section E

Financial review

Overall, we have maintain a healthy financial position, as we have regular Brief statement of the donations from volunteers and members, no loan or debt taken in the charity’s policy on reserves year and we have no intention to do so in the next 12 months. None of the Trustees were reimbursed out of pocket expenses and 3 of the Trustees donated a total of £1140 over the financial year. £1550 deficit this financial year, this is only the case of relocating to start up a new temple incurs one off expenditures apart from regular expenses such as agent fees, lawyer fees and renovation expenses. Details of any funds materially in deficit We are looking better in the next financial year and planning to made a donation to a charity organisation in the UK to support peoples who is in need.

Further financial review details (Optional information)

Sources of Fund: No government Grant, mainly relied on Donations from members and public, we would only have expected people to donate after they have benefited from our help and Buddhism teaching promoted, hence no street raising fund events have ever been held.

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

• the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

• Main Expenditures: Our major expenditure were the temple’s rental and

• any fundraising); the storage rental. Storage rental would be no longer needed for the next

• how expenditure has financial year as we were complately moved into the new temple. Other supported the key objectives regular expenses such as telephone and broadband, utilities bill, liabilities of the charity; insurance and other miscellaneous will remain the usage. All these

• investment policy and decisions and expenses will be strictly reviewed and scrutinized by the trustees.

• investment policy and trustees.

• objectives including any ethical investment policy No Investments can be made from Donations.

• adopted.

Section F Other optional information

N/A

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Tze Wei Siow Guat Faung Eyu Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)[Chairman] Trustees Date 25[th] Jan 2023

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	Charity Name	Charity Name	Charity Name	Charity Name	Charity Name	No(if any)	No(if any)		CC16a
	UK GUAN YIN CITTA DHARMA DOOR BUDDHIST CHARITY FOUNDATION					1165696
	Receipts andpayments accounts
	For the period from		Period start date		To		Period end date
			01/04/2021				31/03/2022
Section A Receipts and payments
	Unrestricted funds		Restricted funds		Endowment funds		Total funds		Last year
	to the nearest £		to the nearest £		to the nearest £		to the nearest £		to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
General Donations	31,402		-		-		31,402		16,946
Interest	3		-		-		3		10
Rental Deposit Refund	1,423		-		-		1,423		430
	-		-		-		-		-
Sub total(Gross income for AR)	32,828		-		-		32,828		17,386
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
	-		-		-		-
	-		-		-		-		-
Sub total	-		-		-		-		-
**Total receipts **	32,828		-		-		32,828		17,386
A3 Payments
Temple / Storage Rental	18,775		-		-		18,775		1,956
Telephone and broadband	368		-		-		368		394
Utilities / Service Maintenance	1,695		-		-		1,695		-
Repair Maintenance	5,320		-		-		5,320		-
Office admin + event	317		-		-		317		144
Insurance	473		-		-		473		-
Website host + design	767		-		-		767		-
Professional fees	3,730		-		-		3,730		1,080
Independent Examination Fees	435		-		-		435		650
Security System	216		-		-		216		-
Bank charges	26		-		-		26		-
Equipment	811		-		-		811		-
Miscellaneous	1,445		-		-		1,445		-
Donations to British Red Cross	-		-		-		-		3,630
Removal	-		-		-		-		420
Sub total	34,377		-		-		34,377		8,274
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
	-		-		-		-
	-		-		-		-
**Sub total **	-		-		-		-		-
Totalpayments	34,377		-		-		34,377		8,274
Net of receipts/(payments)	- 1,549		-		-		- 1,549		9,112
A5 Transfers between funds	-		-		-		-		-
A6 Cash funds lastyear end	45,115		-		-		45,115		36,003
**Cash funds thisyear end **	43,566		-		-		43,566		45,115

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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the	period	period
Categories	Details				Unrestricted funds		Restricted funds		Endowment funds
					to nearest £		to nearest £		to nearest £
B1 Cash funds	HSBC Current Account				7,717		-		-
	HSBC Savings Account				35,326		-		-
	Cash In Hand				523		-		-
	Total cash funds				43,566		-		-
	(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))				OK				OK
					Unrestricted funds		Restricted funds		Endowment funds
	Details				to nearest £		to nearest £		to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets	Rental Deposit				3,125		-		-
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	Details				Fund to which asset belongs		Cost (optional)		Current value (optional)
B3 Investment assets							-		-
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	Details				Fund to which asset belongs		Cost (optional)		Current value (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use							-		-
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	Details				Fund to which liability relates		Amount due (optional)		When due (optional)
B5 Liabilities	Independent Examination Fee				Unrestricted		750
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Signature				Print Name				Date of approval
					Guat Eyu				25th Jan 2023

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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

25/03/2023