GURU NANAK GURDWARA SMETHWICK

Registered charity 1154098 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GNG SMETHWICK

GNG Smethwick's mission is the propagation, practice and advancement of the Sikh Dharam based on teachings of the ten Gurus and Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, the eternal Guru and sacred scriptures of the Sikhs. With over 50 years of spiritual development and enrichment from Smethwick in the West Midlands.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF GNG SMETHWICK IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SIKH RELIGION THROUGH THE PROPAGATION, PRACTICE AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE SIKH DHARAM BASED ON TEACHINGS OF THE TEN GURUS AND SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB JI, THE ETERNAL GURU AND SACRED SCRIPTURES OF THE SIKHS.

Area of benefit: BIRMINGHAM

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £76,616 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £10,015,751. The trustees have explicitly stated that there are no free reserves, and the charity holds significant secured debt of £1,846,463 against its property assets.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ark&Co Ltd. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 42.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jatinder Singhchair
• BALBIR SINGH BHAJAM
• Bhervinder Singh
• HUMRAAJ SINGH SHERGILL
• Harvinder Singh
• Iqbal Singh Shergill
• JASWINDER SINGH
• Jagjevan Singh
• Jasvir Singh
• Kamraj Singh Dhesi
• Kuldeep Singh Deol · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kuljinder Kaur
• Mohinder Singh
• Narinder Singh Waraich
• PERVINDER KAUR
• Parmjit Singh Dhillon
• Rajdeep Singh Thandi
• Resham Kaur
• SARBJIT SINGH
• Sadhu Singh
• TARSEM SINGH SHOKER

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

Operates in: Sandwell

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 GURDWARA SOUTH BIRMINGHAM.

• GURU NANAK GURDWARA SOUTH BIRMINGHAM income £569k
• THE GURU NANAK NISHKAM SEWAK JATHA (BIRMINGHAM) UK income £4.4m
• GURU NANAK GURDWARA, PROSPECT STREET, HUDDERSFIELD. income £467k
• GURU NANAK NISHKAM SEWAK JATHA LONDON UK income £655k
• GURU NANAK GURDWARA income £854k
• SIRI GURU NANAK DARBAR (SIKH TEMPLE) income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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