THE TRADITIONAL YOGA ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1091469 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote public education in the three facets of the Yoga Darshan: Jnana, Bhakti and Karma which include education and research, devotional and spiritual practices and the rituals and the fulfilment of the responsibilites of care and service.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE THREE FACETS OF THE YOGA DARSHAN: JNANA, BHAKTI AND KARMA WHICH INCLUDE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, DEVOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AND RITUALS AND THE FULFILMENT OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF CARE AND SERVICE;2. TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE IN FINANCIAL NEED; AND3. TO PROMOTE EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION TO THE PUBLIC.THE TRUSTEES MUST USE THE INCOME AND MAY USE THE CAPITAL OF THE TRUST IN PROMOTING THE OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £46,164 against expenditure of £42,978, resulting in a surplus. The charity's unrestricted reserves stood at £18,374, which the trustees noted was lower than their policy target at year-end but were subsequently brought above the target by a grant received two months later.

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 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — The MUKTI Project (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DR UDDHAVA SAMMAN
• Hamulata Dinkarbhai Patel
• PENNY HITCHINGS-JONES
• WILMETTE BROWN

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

Operates in: India · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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