SHREE SWAMINARAYAN MANDIR OLDHAM

Registered charity 1180298 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Prayer services held twice daily, where discourses, aarti, kirtan, dhun and stotras are performed. All persons are welcome to the services.All religious festivals are celebrated with enthusiasm.Learned Sadhus from India visit the temple and hold special discourses.Promoting the faith to new and young members is achieved through Youth Services and Gujarati classes, which are well attended.

Objects

2.1 THE CHARITYÆS OBJECTS ARE:2.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE HINDU FAITH AMONGST ITS FOLLOWERS AND OTHERS BASED UPON THE ORIGINAL TEACHINGS AND PRINCIPLES OF LORD SHREE SWAMINARAYAN AS PROPOUNDED BY THE NAR-NARAYAN DEV GADI, GUJARAT, INDIA, IN THE TOWN OF OLDHAM AND THE COUNTY OF LANCASHIRE, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY MAINTAINING A TEMPLE AND OTHER FACILITIES FOR HINDU WORSHIP; AND2.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE HINDU FAITH, HINDU TRADITIONS, HISTORY, LITERATURE, MUSIC AND THE GUJARATI LANGUAGE.

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state a surplus of £63,229 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total charity funds increasing to £522,815. The trustees report that unrestricted funds are being built to meet loan obligations for the temple, and creditors have indicated willingness to support the charity, resulting in a 'none' going concern assessment.

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 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anil Dhanji Kara
• HITESH PARBAT BHUDIA
• JITENDRA BHIMJI KARA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Pravin Mulji Vekariya
• VALJI RAMJI VEKRIA
• VINOD PARBAT VEKARIA

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHREE KUTCH SATSANG SWAMINARAYAN TEMPLE - SOUTH EAST LONDON.

• SHREE KUTCH SATSANG SWAMINARAYAN TEMPLE - SOUTH EAST LONDON income £387k
• TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNEXION WITH THE DASMESH SIKH TEMPLE COMMITTEE income £390k
• SHREE KUTCH SATSANG SWAMINARAYAN TEMPLE (MANDIR) LONDON income £2.6m
• SHREE KUTCH SATSANG SWAMINARAYAN TEMPLE (EAST LONDON) income £416k
• THE SHREE SWAMINARAYAN TEMPLE income £1.7m
• THE SIKH SOCIETY OF MILTON KEYNES income £179k

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