SHREE DIGAMBER JAIN ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1012340 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principle aims & activities are to understand, practice and preach Jain Religion as defined and proclaimed by Tirthanker Shree Mahavir and as further recorded, depicted and/or otherwise explained in the scriptures by Shree Kund Kund Acharya and other such contemporary Acharyas and further practised, preached and propagated by Param Pujya Sadgurudev Kanji Swami of Songadh, Saurashtra, India

Objects

TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE, PROPAGATE AND FACILITATE THE PRACTICE OF THE TERAPANTH DIGAMBER JAIN RELIGION DEFINED FOR THE PURPOSE AND CONTEXT OF THIS CONSTITUTION AS THE PROCLAMATIONS AND TEACHINGS OF TIRTHANKAR SHREE MAHAVIRSWAMI AND AS RECORDED AND DEPICTED IN THE SCRIPTURES BY SHREE KUNDKUND ACHARYA AND OTHER SUCH DIGAMBER ACHARYAS AND FURTHER PRACTICED, PREACHED AND EXPLAINED BY PUJYA GURUDEVSHREE KANJISWAMI OF SONGADH, SAURASHTRA, INDIA

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income surplus of £50,094 for the year, with total incoming resources of £98,621 against charitable expenditure of £48,527. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted free reserves of approximately £10,216, which the Executive Committee considers sufficient to meet its objectives and protect ongoing work. The charity is run entirely by volunteers with no remuneration paid to members or trustees.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• VINOD SHAHchair
• DARSHIKA SHAH
• JALPA KOTHARI
• JIGNESH SHAH
• NIRAV GUDHKA
• UMESH A SHAH

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Harrow · India

Income and spending

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