GIFT OF HOPE TRUST LTD

Registered charity 1081796 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VRINDAVAN EDUCATION AND RELIEF TRUST LTD

The charity provide free meals,medicines and educational needs to the needy.

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST CHILDREN AND ADULTS AND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN INDIA AND ELSEWHERE IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF CLOTHING FOOD MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND SWEET WATER WELLS

Area of benefit: INDIA AND ELSEWHERE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £56,049 for the year ended 30 November 2025, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £635,950 to £579,901. The trustees confirmed that the company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for this period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/11/2022 (received 07/02/2024, 130 days after the 30/09/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03885635 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PATEL, Rakesh — director, appointed 05/03/2026on trustee list
• MADHVANI, Ashiek — director, appointed 13/03/2023on trustee list
• SHAH, Bimal — director, appointed 01/04/2020on trustee list
• SHAH, Bimal — secretary, appointed 01/04/2020

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2024)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 10.4% of total income.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ashiek Madhvani
• Bimal Shah
• Rakesh Patel

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

Operates in: India

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CENTRE OF HOPE.

• CENTRE OF HOPE income £75k
• HOPE FAMILY TRUST income £271k
• HOPE FOR HUMANITY income £166k
• HOPE FOR HUNGER CIO income £106k
• HOPE ALIVE TRUST income £70k
• HOPE CHURCH LUTON TRUST income £227k

Side by side with its peers

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