LONDON SIVAN KOVIL TRUST

Registered charity 1051516 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1) The main activity of the Trust is running and maintaining a Saiva Hindu Temple for the benefit of the Hindu and other communities. 2) The trust owns a multipurpose community centre called Sivan Centre which is used for weddings, cultural programmes and community activities. 3) The trust owns and maintains an orphanage in Cheddipalayam Batticaloa Sri Lanka. 4) The trust is running a free school

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £201,876 and holds cash reserves of £1,036,259, which the trustees consider ample for operational needs. However, the actual free reserves of £73,095 are below the stated policy target of £75,000, as significant funds are committed to property acquisition and emergency repairs.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (53% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr THURAIRAJAH SRISKANDARAJAHchair
• Dr SEENIAR NAVARATNAM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Subbaiya SIVATHASAN
• Kandiah Arumugam Raveendran
• Manoharan Ganeshan
• NADARAJAH SIVASUBRAMANIAM
• PAKTHAVATHSALA GENGATHARAN
• RAJINI SRITHARAN
• SELLAPPAH YOGARAJAH
• SELVARATNAM SUTHAHARAN
• SHANMUGANATHAN PARAMESWARAN
• Selliah Pararajasingam
• Sukumar Sangaravel
• Theivendram Ratheskumar
• Viththiyakaran Kumaraswamy
• Yarlini Rubaseyon

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

Operates in: Lewisham

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COVENTRY SHRI SIDHI VINAYAGAR DEVASTHANAM.

• COVENTRY SHRI SIDHI VINAYAGAR DEVASTHANAM income £409k
• THE PARASAKTHY HINDU (SAIVA) TEMPLE TRUST UK income £1.1m
• SHREE KUTCH SATSANG SWAMINARAYAN TEMPLE - SOUTH EAST LONDON income £387k
• HINDU TAMIL CULTURAL ASSOCIATION (ENFIELD) income £1.2m
• WELLINGBOROUGH DISTRICT HINDU ASSOCIATION income £268k
• THE HINDU TEMPLE TRUST income £577k

Side by side with its peers

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