THE BEDE GRIFFITHS CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1106071 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Making grants to provide social infrastructure, education and care for the young and elderly in Tamil Nadu, South India in and around the Saccidananda Ashram at Shantivanam.

Objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION IN PARTICULAR TO PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING AND CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE MAJOR RELIGIONS AND FAITH COMMUNITIES IN THE WORLD.2. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH GRANTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE WORK AND VISION OF FR BEDE GRIFFITHS

Area of benefit: INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a net expenditure of £3,240 for the year, reducing its total reserves from £52,119 to £48,878. The trustees report that the charity has no staff, no salaries, and maintains liquidity through regular monthly donations, with unrestricted reserves of £2,527 at year-end. The trustees confirm they are not aware of any events that would have a material detrimental impact on the charity's position.

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 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — www.bgct.org.uk (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• PIPPA MISTRY-NORMANchair
• Dr Richard Louis Rivers Snooks
• GREVILLE JOHN NORMAN CPFA, AGP
• HITEN ANAND
• Lady Moira Swayne
• Lucie-Jane Lewis MBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• MARK LYNDON BRADBERRY
• MICHAEL PRUSS
• MRS MARY PRUSS
• Rene Cadet
• Rev SIMON NICHOLAS PAUL

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

Operates in: India

Income and spending

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