GHANSHYAM EDUCATION TRUST

Registered charity 1122165 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CONGREGATION AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY INCLUDING ADULT LITERACY CLASSES, GCSE TUITIONS AND CHILDRENS ACTIVITIES

Objects

1)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE CONGREGATION OF SHREE KUTCH SATSANG SWAMINARAYAN TEMPLE (MANDIR) LONDON, KENTON HARROW MIDDLESEX BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS WHICH SHALL BE ADMINISTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS AND DOCTRINES OF THE HINDU FAITH AND IN PARTICULAR IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS AND PRINCIPLES OF LORD SHREE SWAMINARAYAN.2)TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY GROUPS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, MIDDLESEX.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £62,371 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted funds of £63,964. The trustees report that free reserves are adequate at all times, and the independent examiner confirmed no matters gave cause for concern regarding the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05854972

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.

• HIRANI, Bhupendra Vishram — director, appointed 15/07/2026not on trustee list
• RAGHWANI, Divia Jayesh — director, appointed 15/07/2026not on trustee list
• KARA, Manji Kanji — director, appointed 01/07/2023not on trustee list
• RABADIA, Arvind Dhanji — director, appointed 01/07/2023not on trustee list
• HALAI, Arvind — director, appointed 27/05/2011on trustee list
• BHANDERI, Arvind Karsan — director, appointed 22/06/2006on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ARVIND HALAI
• ARVIND KARSAN BHANDERI
• Mansukh Vaghji
• Suresh Rabadiya

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

Operates in: Harrow

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GURU NANAK NISHKAM SEWAK JATHA LONDON UK.

• GURU NANAK NISHKAM SEWAK JATHA LONDON UK income £655k
• GURU NANAK NISHKAM EDUCATION TRUST income £1.4m
• GHAZALI EDUCATION TRUST (UK) LIMITED income £124k
• NATIONAL NUMERACY income £2.2m
• SCHOOL-LED DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £19.0m
• THE HARI PRASAD SHASTRI CHARITABLE TRUST income £155k

Side by side with its peers

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