|1|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Trustees' Annual Report**||||| ||**For the period from**
**01/01/2024**
**To**||||| |**Section A Reference and Administration Details**|||||| |**Charity name**
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity's principal address**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Trustee name**
**Office (if any)**
1 Linda Vincent
Chair
2 Grace Loveday
Secretary
3 Trevor Fielding
Treasurer
4 Nathan Glyde
Chief Technical Officer
5 Juila Wallond
6 David Ashby
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8
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10
**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian**
**Name**
N/A|||||| ||||Meditation in Action||| ||||||| ||||N/A||| ||||1193150||| ||||Coach House||| ||||Church Street||| ||||PRESTEIGNE,Powys||| ||||**Postcode**||LD8 2BS| ||||||| ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)**|| ||1 Linda Vincent|Chair|||| ||2 Grace Loveday|Secretary|||| ||3 Trevor Fielding|Treasurer|||| ||4 Nathan Glyde|Chief Technical Officer|||| ||5 Juila Wallond||||| ||6 David Ashby||||| ||7||||| ||8||||| ||9||||| ||0||||| ||||||| ||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian**||**trustees)**||| ||**Name**||**Dates acted if not for wholeyear**||| ||N/A||||| ||||||| ||||||| ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**N/A**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members**
**(Optional information)**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**N/A**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members**
**(Optional information)**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Section B Structure, Governance and Management**||| |**Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
How the charity is constituted
Charitable Incorporated Organisation
(eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed by current trustees
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
**Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
You**may choose**to include additional
information, where relevant, about:
_The Trustees have agreed that as part of the induction process for new trustees, before anyone considers_
_appointment as a trustee, they should familiarise themselves with the responsibilities of charity trustees, read_
_the Charity Commission booklet on this subject and carefully read the Charity's memorandum and articles of_
_association and its latest financial statements._
_The charity's structure currently consists of the Trustees listed above, with no trustee receiving any remuneration directly or indirectly from the Charity._
_Our charity’s events are listed on the website of SanghaSeva, a non-profit association that does similar work outside of our charities domain (Europe)._
· 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;||| ||
Constitution
|| ||
Charitable Incorporated Organisation
)|| ||
Appointed by current trustees
)|| |||| ||_The Trustees have agreed that as part of the induction process for new trustees, before anyone considers_
_appointment as a trustee, they should familiarise themselves with the responsibilities of charity trustees, read_
_the Charity Commission booklet on this subject and carefully read the Charity's memorandum and articles of_
_association and its latest financial statements._
_The charity's structure currently consists of the Trustees listed above, with no trustee receiving any remuneration directly or indirectly from the Charity._
_Our charity’s events are listed on the website of SanghaSeva, a non-profit association that does similar work outside of our charities domain (Europe)._
|| _The Trustees have reviewed the major risks to which the Charity is exposed. Where practical and appropriate, steps have been put in place to manage, mitigate or minimise these risks._ · trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and Activities** |**Summary of the objects of the charity**
**set out in its governing document**
**Summary of the main activities**
**undertaken for the public benefit in**
**relation to these objects (include**
**within this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have had**
**regard to the guidance issued by the**
**Charity Commission on public**
**benefit)**
You**may choose**to include further
statements, where relevant, about:
· policy on grantmaking;
· policy programme related
investment;
· contribution made by volunteers.|
To advance the Buddhist religion for the benefit of the public, in particular but not exclusively by participating in humanitarian and ecological projects and
by holding events that promote Buddhist ethics and meditation practice so that participants (including volunteers) can learn greater awareness,
resilience and care.| |---|---| ||We run meditation retreats at humanitarian and environmental projects for the benefit of the public.
In early 2025, we held a retreat on Dartmoor, where participants volunteered with Moor Trees to support their ecological work. To make the event more
accessible, we offered a bursary fund for those on low incomes. The retreat focused on Buddhist meditation practices, using mindfulness to cultivate
stillness, reduce stress and foster deeper connections. Participants engaged in both silent meditation and mindful activities in the gardens and grounds.
Later in the year, in Calais, we organised a four-day Buddhist meditation retreat in partnership with the charities Care 4 Calais and Refugee Community
Kitchen that support migrants and people seeking asylum. Alongside learning mindfulness and other practices, participants volunteered in the Care 4
Calais warehouse and Refugee Community Kitchen kitchen wherever their help was most needed. To ensure accessibility, we used a sliding scale for
retreat costs, enabling some participants to attend for less than the hosting cost whilst others contributed at a supportive rate.
We also ran two very affordable day events at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. These days combined meditation with positive action in an inner-city
wilderness park, offering participants a chance to practise presence whilst engaging with the natural environment.| ||**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**| ||| ||| |**Section D Achievements and Performance**|| |**Summary of the main achievements**
**of the charity during the year**|| ||In 2025 we hosted four socially and environmentally engaged Buddhist meditation retreats. Each was well attended, warmly received by participants,
and appreciated by the partner organisations with whom we collaborated. Thanks to flexible fees and bursaries, we were able to welcome people from a
wide range of financial backgrounds.
Financially, the events have been sustainable: most covered their own costs, and where one or two fell short, the overall accounts balanced across the
year. This leaves us in a strong position to continue our work in 2026, with the possibility of expanding what we can offer.| ||| |**Section E Financial Review**|| |**Brief statement of the charity’s policy**
**on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in**
**deficit**
You**may choose**to include additional
information, where relevant about:
· the charity’s principal sources of
funds (including any fundraising);|| ||
_The Charity does not deem it necessary to hold specific reserves for the following reasons;_
_- low risk of unforeseen emergencies e.g no fixed assets held that might need reprising_
_- low risk of unforeseen day-to-day operation costs i.e no employed staff_
_- low risk of a source of income not being renewed i.e most retreats and events we run independently cover their own costs_| ||N/A| ||**Further financial review details (Optional information)**| ||Account opening on 1 January 2025 was £6,715, with a closing balance on 31 December 2024 of £7,488, giving a difference of £753. This outcome
compares favourably with our forecast, although not all outgoing payments for the 2026 Earth Care Retreat have yet been taken into account, while most
event registration fees have already been received.
Income for the year covered four events held in 2025 as well as the first event of 2026 (Earth Care).| - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; Sources of funding in 2025 included event registrations £8,919, and donations £276. An additional £20 was gained through bank interest. Total income for the year was £9,215. - investment policy and objectives The main expenses were accommodation £5,645, food £1,092, travel £439, donations to charities £1,100. This gave total expenditure of £8,442. - including any ethical investment policy The difference between income and expenditure was £773. adopted. ## **Section F Other Optional Information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s)
Full name(s) Nathan Glyde David Ashby
Position (e.g Secretary, Chair etc) CTO Trustee
Date 2026/08/26 2026/08/26
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CC16a FORM Charity no. **1193150** ## **Meditation in Action** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** |**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |For the period from
**0� January 2025**
to
**Section A · Receipts and payments**||**3� December 2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**|**Last year**| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||||| |||_to the nearest £_|_to the nearest £_|_to the nearest £_|_to the_
_nearest £_|_to the_
_nearest £_| |**A� Receipts**
Retreat income
Donations (Dana)
Bank income
FX impact
Mistaken payments received
Other income||8,9�9
276
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20
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Accommodation
Food and drink
Travel
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Donation to charities
Bank charges
Mistaken payments refunded
FX impact
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�,092
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0| ||||||0|| ||||||0|| |**_Sub total_**|**0**||**0**|**0**|**0**|**0**| |**Total payments**|**8,442**||**0**|**0**|**8,442**|**7,�66**| |**Net of receipts / (payments)**|**773**||**0**|**0**|**773**|**�,935**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**|0
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4,780| ||||||6,7�5|| |Cash funds this year end|7,488||0|0|7,488|6,715| CC16a · Receipts and payments accounts Section A · page 1 of 2 CC16a FORM ## **Meditation in Action** Charity no. **1193150** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** For the period from **0� January 2025** to **3� December 2025** ## **Section B · Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** ## **B1 Cash funds** |**Categories · Details**|**Unrestricted funds**|**Restricted funds**|**Endowment funds**| |---|---|---|---| |Cash funds at 3�/�2/2025 (Unity Trust Bank)|7,488|0|0| |**Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts**
**and payments account(s))**|**7,488**|**0**|**0**| ||_OK_|_OK_|_OK_| ## **B2 Other monetary assets** |**Details**|**Fund to which asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value (optional)**| |---|---|---|---| |Prepaid retreat costs — Earth
Care (2026)|Unrestricted fund|�,480|�,480| |Prepaid retreat costs —
Nourishing Roots (2027)|Unrestricted fund|489|489| ||||| |**B3 Investment assets**|||| |**Details**|**Fund to which asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value (optional)**| ||||| ||||| |**B4 Assets retained for the charity's own use**|||| |**Details**|**Fund to which asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value (optional)**| ||||| ||||| ## **B5 Liabilities** |**Details**|**Fund to which liability relates**|**Amount due (optional)**|**When due (optional)**| |---|---|---|---| |Retreat fees received in advance
— Earth Care Day (January
2026)|Unrestricted fund|�2�|January 2026| |Retreat fees received in advance
— Earth Care (2026)|Unrestricted fund|3,743|February 2026| |Retreat fees received in advance
— Humanity in Action (2026)|Unrestricted fund|45�|April 2026| ## **Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees** ||**Signature**|**Print Name**|**Date of approval**| |---|---|---|---| |**Trustee 1**||Nathan Glyde|| |**Trustee 2**||David Ashby|26/08/2026| ||||| CC16a · Receipts and payments accounts Section B · page 2 of 2