LOHANA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD

Registered charity 1161788 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the benefit of inhabitants of North and North West London without any distinction to advance education (in particular but not exclusively in the Hindu religion, culture, arts, and heritage of the Lohana Community) and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and other leisure time occupations.To establish or secure the establishment of a community centre.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE "OBJECTS") ARE IN FURTHERING THE FOLLOWING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LOHANA COMMUNITY AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ("THE COMMUNITY"), IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY:A. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF NORTH AND NORTH WEST LONDON WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION (IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE HINDU RELIGION, CULTURE, ARTS, HERITAGE OF THE LOHANA COMMUNITY) AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS;B. TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE CENTRE") AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS;C. TO RELIEVE OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS AMONGST MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE IN NEED OF BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES; ANDD. TO SUPPORT SUCH OTHER GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS TRUSTEES DEEM FIT.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £4,809,361, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain reserves equivalent to three to six months of expenditure. The charity reported a net income of £18,197 for the year, with total income of £115,380 and total expenditure of £97,183. The auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KLSA 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £3.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/05/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Vinodrai Thakrarchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• AJAYKUMAR GOKANI
• BHAVESH RADIA
• Dr RASIKLAL KANTARIA
• JAGDISH NAGRECHA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeet Ashvin Rughani
• NARENDRA THAKRAR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Narendra Kotecha
• PRADIP DHAMECHA · trustee of 1 other charity
• RAMESHCHANDRA KANTARIA
• Reena Popat
• Ronak Rajendra Paw
• Sudhir Dewji
• VIMAL VRAJLAL PAU · trustee of 1 other charity
• YATIN DAWADA
• Yagnish Chotai

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

Operates in: India · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRAHMIN SOCIETY NORTH LONDON.

• THE BRAHMIN SOCIETY NORTH LONDON income £121k
• WELLINGBOROUGH DISTRICT HINDU ASSOCIATION income £268k
• AFGHAN EKTA CULTURAL/RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY CENTRE income £1.4m
• THE LOHANA MAHAJAN (UK) TRUST income £462k
• MUSLIM KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI COMMUNITY OF LEICESTER income £1.0m
• DEVOTIONAL ASSOCIATES OF YOGESHWAR income £771k

Side by side with its peers

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