## New Buddha Way
Charity No. 1170368
## Trustee’s Report 2023
The Trustees present their accounts for year ended 31 March 2023.
Trustees who held office during the year were as follows:
|Mrs Lynne McNeil|Chairperson|
|---|---|
|Mrs Juliet Kimber|Secretary|
|Mr Jeremy Herridge|Treasurer|
|Mr Paul McNeil|Trustee|
|Ms Caroline Relfe|Trustee|
|Mr Gordon Davidson|Trustee|
## OBJECTIVES AND MANAGEMENT
The objectives of the Trust are:
The aim of New Buddha Way (hereafter ‘NBW’) is to advance the Buddhist religion (also known as ‘the Buddha Dharma’) for the benefit of the public in accordance with the spiritual, religious and ethical framework of ‘The Four Noble Truths’ and ‘The Noble Eightfold Path’, with their particular emphasis on wisdom, non-harm, compassion, and peace. To do this for the benefit of the public by means of:
- Teaching, informing, publicising, and distributing the Buddhist teachings and way of life in lectures and classes as well as paper and digital media. These are delivered with recognition that the preferred Buddhist way is by ‘making available’ rather than proselytising.
- Manifesting peaceful coexistence and community, through the holding of mainly free activities that are open and available to the public (as well as adherents) including:
- (a) Community meditation and contemplation sessions,
- (b) Meditation retreats,
- (c) The public celebration of Buddhist festivals,
- (d) Occasional pastoral care.
People in poverty will not be excluded from the opportunity to benefit from NBW’s teachings.
## HISTORY
New Buddha Way was founded in 2002 in Guildford as a voluntary association by Prof. Geoff Hunt, Buddhist Chaplain at Surrey University. Since then, the group has grown steadily to become the small community that meets today.
REVIEW OF THE YEAR
From March 2022 New Buddha Way continued to meet for meditation as a community, both via zoom and in person.
We have met every Sunday and occasionally midweek and have up to fifty people each week with participants old and new able to join us from various locations.
These sessions as everything we offer at NBW are free.
We have offered an Introductory Session every six weeks to anyone who would like to know more about NBW and follow on with our Sunday Community Sessions.
Our Retreats and Festival days have now resumed following the Covid restrictions of last year.
We raised funds through participant donations and were able to send a contribution to Woking Food Bank and Buddhist Global Relief and the Anukampa Project. We are also supporting the Anukampa Project with a regular vegetable box donation.
Our board of Trustees met regularly throughout the year. There has been a restructuring of the board following the retiring of our Founder Dr Geoffrey Hunt and we have been supported by new members stepping forward from the community to continue the charities’ work.
We continue to promote our aims of wisdom, non-harm, compassion, and peace.
Signed on behalf of the Trustees:
|Signature|Full Name|Date of Approval|
|---|---|---|
||Mrs Lynne McNeil|02/08/2023|
||Mrs Juliet Kimber|02/08/2023|
||Mr Paul McNeil|02/08/2023|
**New Buddha Way No (if any)1170368 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01/04/2022 31/03/2023 **To from**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
**Amazon Smile**
**Card Donations SumUp**
**Cash Donations**
**FONBW**
**Gift Aid**
**Individual Donations**
**March 2023 Retreat**
**Retreat**
**School Visits/Funerals**
**Walk/Foodbank**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
5.00
299.92
505.15
1,924.00
538.47
1,216.90
3,060.00
0.00
0.00
50.00
**7,599**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,599**
2,000.00
75.36
1,934.50
332.63
531.10
60.00
175.20
3,060.00
0.00
0.00
**552**
**-**
**8,721**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,721**
**- 1,122**
**-**
**7,117**
**5,995**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5**
**300**
**505**
**1,924**
**538**
**1,217**
**3,060**
**-**
**-**
**50**
**7,599**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,599**
**2,000**
**75**
**1,935**
**333**
**531**
**60**
**175**
**3,060**
**-**
**-**
**552**
**-**
**8,721**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,721**
**- 1,122**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
5.00
0.00
137.00
1,834.00
543.42
1,117.68
0.00
2,064.00
120.00
0.00|
|||||||**5,821**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**
**BGR/Foodbank**
**Computer and Internet Expenditures**
**Hall Hire**
**Insurance Expenditure-General Liability**
**Insurance**
**Office/General Administrative Expenditures**
**Professional Fees**
**Quickbooks**
**Retreat Hire**
**Retreat Refund**
**Uncategorised Expenditure**
**Anukampa Project**
**Visiting Speaker**
**_Sub total_ **|||||||
|||||||**5,821**|
|||||||1,000.00
72.96
302.40
304.40
320.50
60.00
0.00
1,706.00
-350.00
0.00
500.00
50.00|
|||||||**3,966**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**3,966**|
||||||||
||**- 1,122**|**-**|
**-**|**- 1,122**||**1,855**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**7,117**|**-**|**-**|**7,117**||**10,762**|
||**5,995**|**-**|
**-**|**5,995**||**12,617**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
1
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|signed in manuscript
signed in manuscript
**Details**
**Details**
Treasurer's Account
Reserve Account
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**7,117**
**-**
**4,379**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,496**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Lynne McNeil
Paul McNeil|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
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||||Date of
approval|
||signed in manuscript|Lynne McNeil|02/08/2023|
||signed in manuscript|Paul McNeil|02/08/2023|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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Inde
endent Examinerfs Re
ort to the Trustees of New Buddha Wa
This report is on the accounts for the year ended 3111 March 2023. Balance sheet total £11fv96.01
RespecU¥e reSpw$lbllltl ofTrusteos and Examlner
The charltles trustees are responslble for the preparatlon of the attounts. The charltles trustees
conslder that an audlt Is not requlred thls year under sectlon 144 of the Charitles Act 2011 (the
Charltles Act) and that an Independent emamlmtlon Is needed.
My examlnatlon Includes a revlew of the accountlng records kept by the charlty and a comparlson of
the accounts presented wlth those records.
nden
No matter has come to my attentlon wlth my examlnatlon of the a¢countln8 records, In accordanr
with sertion 130 of the Charltles Act, and the accompanylng rtr¢oTds.
Name
Janette D•lgll¢$h
Sl8nature
Address
JMD Accountlng Ltd
16 Hare Hlll
Addlestone
r15 IDT
Date
0210812023