The Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (Corwen)

Holding Meditation Retreats.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £197,483 and spent £157,924.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 114%, from £92,460 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £197,483 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 80% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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8 trustees run the charity.

• William GowChairAppointed 1 August 2022
• Dh TEJAPUSHPA ENTWHISTLEAppointed 3 December 2018
• Dharmachari Tejananda
• Dr SION WILLIAMSAppointed 3 December 2018
• Jinapalita dhAppointed 30 September 2015
• Mark SheaAppointed 1 May 2022
• Monika PodgorskaAppointed 28 April 2026
• Teresa Maria FisherAppointed 13 August 2024

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

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Charity number

514363

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

6 October 1983

Governing document

RULES ADOPTED 19 SEPTEMBER 1983 AMENDED 18 NOVEMBER 1986 AND 11 DECEMBER 2002

Website

www.vajraloka.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Denbighshire

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Denbighshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Denbighshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Clwyd
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Bangor Conwy Môn
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gwynedd Maldwyn