BHAGWAN VALMIK SABHA BEDFORD

Registered charity 1029468 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BHAGWAN VALMIK SABHA CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

The Charity has acted to advance the philosophy of Bhagwan Valmiki Ji in Bedfordshire and its environs and where appropriate internationally through religious ceremony and academic study and presentation. The Charity has also acted with efforts to relieve sickness and poverty where considered appropriate by the donation of funds to charitable organisations and to the Government of the UK.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE THE VALMIKI RELIGION THROUGH THE TEACHINGS OF BHAGWAN VALMIK JI AND THE MAHA RAMAYANA IN THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD AND ITS ENVIRONS. B) TO RELIEVE POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE BEDFORDSHIRE

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held free reserves of £1,232,172 as of 28 January 2025, an increase from the previous year. The trustees report that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011 and FRS 102, and the independent examiner found no matters requiring attention regarding accounting records or compliance.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Trustees · trustee networks

• Balvinder Kalyan
• Shiv - Shankar Nahar

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

Operates in: Bedford · Central Bedfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DEVOTIONAL ASSOCIATES OF YOGESHWAR.

• DEVOTIONAL ASSOCIATES OF YOGESHWAR income £771k
• RAJ KAUSHAL GITA BHAWAN HINDU TEMPLE MANCHESTER income £161k
• LONDON INSTITUTE OF VEDIC EDUCATION income £847k
• RAGHUVANSHI MAHAJAN LONDON "RAMA" income £1.2m
• SHRI VALLABH NIDHI - UK income £1.4m
• SHRI GURU VALMIK SABHA income £111k

Side by side with its peers

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