GUJARATI CULTURAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1014366 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Society's objects is the development of culture links of the gujarati and hindu community in meetings and events throughout the year, thereby developing religious and community awareness.

Objects

A) ADVANCE THE HINDU RELIGION (IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY OBSERVING THE DUE RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS AND PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR HINDU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION). B) PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE GUJARATI COMMUNITY. C) ADVANCE THEEDUCATION OF THE GUJARATI COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE EAST SUSSEX

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lewes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £5,817 for the year, with total income of £35,588 against total expenditure of £41,406. However, the trustees consider the charity financially stable, citing year-end cash funds of £72,949 as providing an appropriate level of reserves for current activities and future plans.

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 4 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 5 were received after the due date: year ending 30/11/2025 (received 01/11/2026, 32 days after the 30/09/2026 due date); year ending 30/11/2024 (received 22/12/2025, 83 days after the 30/09/2025 due date); year ending 30/11/2023 (received 22/01/2025, 114 days after the 30/09/2024 due date); year ending 30/11/2022 (received 02/07/2024, 276 days after the 30/09/2023 due date); year ending 30/11/2021 (received 13/02/2023, 136 days after the 30/09/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• DHIRAJLAL LAMBA
• Dhansukh Patel
• Hina PATEL
• Mahindra Chauhan
• Mira Patel
• Pinal Patel
• Tejal Sangani

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SURREY GUJURATI HINDU SOCIETY.

• SURREY GUJURATI HINDU SOCIETY income £33k
• GURU NANAK GURDWARA AND SIKH CULTURAL CENTRE income £103k
• THE GUJARATI ASSOCIATION, WOLVERHAMPTON income £342k
• UNITED KINGDOM HINDU CULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £50k
• INTER CULTURAL CENTRE income £72k
• HINDU CULTURAL ORGANISATION income £55k

Side by side with its peers

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