UNIVERSAL CONFLUENCE OF YOGA VEDANTA LUMINARY TRUST

Registered charity 1051590 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UCYL TRUST

The Trust teaches Yoga and Vedanta applied philosophy, through Hatha Yoga and meditation courses, Yoga Days and Retreats. We work for the wellbeing and upliftment of everyone irrespective of sexual orientation, age, religion, colour or profession covering physical and mental health issues, domestic abuse, poverty, unemployment, housing and homelessness, bereavements, public service sector etc.

Objects

TO ADVANCE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE PRACTICE AND STUDY OF YOGA AND VEDANTA FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted free reserves of £107,435 at the end of the financial year. The trustees' policy is to maintain reserves equivalent to approximately three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention that would cause concern regarding the accounts or accounting records.

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• MAHESHVARA CAITANYAchair
• Shri Shruti
• TERRENCE CRAVEN WALSH

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOCIETY OF YOGA PRACTITIONERS LTD.

• THE SOCIETY OF YOGA PRACTITIONERS LTD income £44k
• DEVOTIONAL ASSOCIATES OF YOGESHWAR income £771k
• DIVYA JYOTI JAGRATI SANSTHAN income £131k
• LIFE ETERNAL TRUST (UK) income £747k
• Vedanta Institute UK income £151k
• THE YOGA HEALING FOUNDATION income £374k

Side by side with its peers

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