SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP CHURCH-UK

Registered charity 1097070 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP, SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP CHURCH (SRF-UK)

SRF-UK provides and maintains a church building and strives to support the spiritual and religious works of the Self-Realization Fellowship Church in the UK and at its international headquarters in the United States.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION THROUGH THE PROMOTION BY ALL CHARITABLE MEANS OF THE PRINCIPLES AND DOCTRINES OF THE SELF-REALISATION FELLOWSHIP CHURCH CONTAINED IN THE AIMS AND IDEALS FORMULATED BY PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA.

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: Education/training · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £116,081 for the year, contrasting with a surplus in the prior period, though total reserves remained substantial at £3,964,669. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a strong financial position with unrestricted reserves of £947,550 and sufficient cash to cover two years of business disruption assuming no incoming income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 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
• 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04591453

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.

• BAGLEY, Christopher H., President — director, appointed 18/10/2017on trustee list
• BOUCHARD, Joseph — director, appointed 18/10/2017on trustee list
• HOERTER, Jill — director, appointed 11/06/2014on trustee list
• EISELE, Ronald — director, appointed 15/11/2002on trustee list
• HOERTER, Jill — secretary, appointed 18/10/2017

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Bagley
• JILL HOERTER
• Joseph Bouchard
• RONALD EISELE

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

Operates in: Hammersmith And Fulham · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE REFUGE CHURCH, UK.

• THE REFUGE CHURCH, UK income £151k
• Re Church income £133k
• INTERNATIONAL RELIEF FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION income £83k
• SANDERSTEAD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH income £142k
• REVELATION CHURCH - LONDON income £805k
• REALITY CHURCH LONDON income £440k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.