CHINMAYA MISSION ( UK )

Registered charity 1077622 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide to individuals, from any background, the wisdom of Vedanta and practical means for spiritual growth and happiness, enabling them to become positive contributors to society.Chinmaya Mission UK seeks to achieve this objective by organising classes, seminars, public talks, children and youth events for individuals of any background to learn Vedanta.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE HINDU RELIGION AS PROPAGATED BY SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA AND TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION, RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, IN PARTICULAR FOR MEMBERS OF THE HINDU COMMUNITY, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE.

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves stood at £3,882,630, with unrestricted funds of £3,870,231, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover three to six months of expenditure. The charity reported a net deficit of £17,243 for the year, resulting in a slight decrease in total net assets from the previous year. The auditor confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KLSA LLP. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~51.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SWAMI SWAROOPANANDAchair
• Dr Lakshmanan Shivakumar
• Jessica Khiaty Schibli
• Mita Samani
• Rupesh Bhayani
• SANDEEP PATEL
• SURESH PARSRAM WADHWANI
• Vijay Singh Sodhi

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

Operates in: Leicester City · Oxfordshire · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Vedanta Institute UK.

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Side by side with its peers

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