LONDON SRI MURUGAN TEMPLE

Registered charity 1190790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

London Sri Murugan Temple Charity provides a Temple for devotees to worship Lord Murugan and other notable deities. Priests conduct collective and individual poojas and offer peaceful prayers.Community services take place in the adjoining buildings including weddings, moksha poojas and other services for the community.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE HINDU RELIGION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A PLACE OF WORSHIP, HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS, PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS AND PRODUCING AND OR DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ON HINDUISM TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE HINDU RELIGION.

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 that the charity generated a net surplus of £236,263 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,139,931 against expenditure of £903,667. Per the trustees' report, the charity held cash reserves of £2,649,414 at the balance sheet date, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet immediate future requirements. The charity also holds significant fixed assets, including freehold properties valued at £7.27M and investment properties at £1.75M.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ashfords 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Reported reserves equal ~147.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (58% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GOVINDARAJALU RAMADASSchair
• ALAGAPPAN RAMANATHAN
• ALAGARSAMY GOPAL
• GANAPATHI POOMINANTHAN
• GOPALAKRISHNA NAIDU SATHIYAMOORTHY
• Iyarthevan Muthu
• LAKSHMI RAJAGOPALAN
• MALINI GOPALNATHAN
• MEYYAPPAN THENAPPAN
• NAGARAJAN NAIDU
• PACHAIAPPILLAI DAKSHINAMOORTHY
• PAKIRISAMY UTHAYAKUMAR
• PONUDURAI SIVASUBRAMANIAM
• Poongothai Sekar
• Pushpa Raguvaran
• RAJADURAI ANPANANTHAR
• RAJESWARI SEKARAN
• RAJOO PANEERSELVAM
• RAMALAKSHMI RAMACHANDRAN
• RAMASAMY NARAYANAN
• RAMASAMY RENGANATHAN
• RAVICHANDRAN RAMASAMY
• SAROJA KRISHNASAMY
• SIMON MALAI
• SRINIVASAN SAMPATHKUMAR
• VIJAYASWARI THAMBYRAJAH

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

Operates in: Newham

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PARASAKTHY HINDU (SAIVA) TEMPLE TRUST UK.

• THE PARASAKTHY HINDU (SAIVA) TEMPLE TRUST UK income £1.1m
• SRI SELVA VINAYAGAR TEMPLE income £397k
• SHREE KUTCH SATSANG SWAMINARAYAN TEMPLE - SOUTH EAST LONDON income £387k
• SHREE KUTCH SATSANG SWAMINARAYAN TEMPLE (MANDIR) LONDON income £2.6m
• GURU NANAK SATSANG SIKH TEMPLE income £159k
• SIRI GURU NANAK DARBAR (SIKH TEMPLE) income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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