THE JAIN NETWORK

Registered charity 1131386 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PROVIDING INFORMATION AND FACILITIES TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE JAIN RELIGION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL AND ESPECIALLY THE JAIN COMMUNITIES IN INDIA AND THE UK, BY MEANS OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING, RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR SOCIAL WELFARE AND CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE THE JAIN RELIGION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLICB) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE JAIN COMMUNITY IN INDIA AND THE UK BY;1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS3) THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH; AND4) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OFIMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE

Area of benefit: INDIA AND THE UK

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds amounted to £8,095,047, with unrestricted reserves of £9,342. The trustees report that the charity is operating as a going concern with sufficient funding to complete the building project within the next 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Prestons and Jacksons Partnership LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 31/03/2024 (received 26/06/2025, 146 days after the 31/01/2025 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 06752627 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: JAIN CENTRE JINALAY (TEMPLE PROJECT) LTD Companies House 08660438 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Jain Network (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• SHAH, Sushma Hitesh — director, appointed 01/05/2026on trustee list
• SHAH, Punit — director, appointed 01/05/2026on trustee list
• SHAH, Leena — director, appointed 08/03/2022on trustee list
• SHAH, Ajay Manmohan, Dr — director, appointed 09/01/2022not on trustee list
• SHAH, Samir Natvarlal — director, appointed 09/01/2022not on trustee list
• HOLDEN, Bina Kantilal — director, appointed 01/08/2021on trustee list
• MEISHERI, Paras Jayantilal — director, appointed 27/07/2020not on trustee list
• RANKA, Satish Ramesh, Dr — director, appointed 27/07/2020on trustee list
• MITHANI, Vipin — director, appointed 15/08/2016on trustee list
• SHETH, Vijay — director, appointed 31/07/2015on trustee list
• MEHTA, Bharat — director, appointed 02/01/2013on trustee list
• MEHTA, Anantray — director, appointed 18/11/2008on trustee list
• SHAH, Dipakkumar Umedchand — director, appointed 18/11/2008not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANANTRAY MEHTA · trustee of 1 other charity
• BHARAT MEHTA
• Bina Holden
• DIPAK SHAH · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr Ajay Manmohan Shah VPresident · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Samir Natvarlal Shah President · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Satish Ranka
• LEENA SHAH
• Leena Shah · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paras Meisheri Hon Sec
• Punit Shah
• Sushma Shah
• VIPIN C MITHANI
• Vijay Sheth

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

Operates in: Barnet · Belgium · Brent · Harrow · India · Kenya

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Dr Ajay Manmohan Shah VPresident — trustee here and at THE DR N K SHAH TRUST
• Dr Samir Natvarlal Shah President — trustee here and at THE DR N K SHAH TRUST
• Leena Shah — trustee here and at THE DR N K SHAH TRUST

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHREE JAIN SANGH EAST LONDON AND ESSEX.

• SHREE JAIN SANGH EAST LONDON AND ESSEX income £67k
• JAIN SAMAJ EUROPE income £343k
• THE DR N K SHAH TRUST income £633k
• ACHARYA SHRI VIDYASAGAR DIGAMBAR JAIN CHARITABLE TRUST LONDON UK income £171k
• THE JANES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £26k
• JAIN VISHVA BHARATI LONDON income £109k

Side by side with its peers

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