INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS LIMITED

Registered charity 259649 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ISKCON

To systematically promote spiritual education based on the teachings of His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, as given in Bhagavad Gita and Shrimad Bhagavatam, offering spiritual techniques for a more simpler, healthier, happier way of life. To teach and encourage the sankirtana movement, congregational chanting of the Holy Names of God (Krishna) as taught by Sri Caitanya.

Objects

TO ADVANCE, TRANSMIT, SPREAD AND PROPAGATE THE RELIGION OF KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS AS REVEALED IN THE TEACHINGS OF THE BHAGVAD GITA AND SHRIMAD BHAGWATAM AND THE DOCTRINES AND OBSERVANCES THAT SERVE TO PROMOTE AND MANIFEST THE SAID RELIGION.

Area of benefit: UNRESTRICTED

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hertsmere, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group's net income for the year was £3,445,471, driven by higher donations and charitable activity income. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds stood at £22,398,367, which is above the stated policy target of twelve months' expenditure, indicating a robust financial position.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KNAV. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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
• 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

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 31/12/2021 (received 10/01/2023, 71 days after the 31/10/2022 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 00962009
• Trading subsidiary: BHAKTIVEDANTA MANOR LIMITED Companies House 06612940 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• PATEL, Krunnal — director, appointed 09/01/2022on trustee list
• CLARK, Daywanthie — director, appointed 30/01/2020on trustee list
• ANDERSON, Terence Michael — director, appointed 09/01/2004on trustee list
• MURPHY, Paul — director, appointed 09/01/2004on trustee list
• HOWCHIN, Anthony William — director, appointed 27/05/1993on trustee list
• PATEL, Nina — secretary, appointed 16/04/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

42 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (29 freehold); recorded price paid £8.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~19.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (40% 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: 26.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAUL MURPHYchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthony Howchin
• Daywanthie Clark
• Krunnal Patel
• TERENCE MICHAEL ANDERSON

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS LONDON.

• INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS LONDON income £4.8m
• INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS SOUTH LONDON LTD income £82k
• INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS BHAKTIVEDANTA MANOR income £7.5m
• KRISHNA CYMRU income £1.8m
• JAYA SHREE KRISHNA CHARITABLE TRUST income £204k
• INTERNATIONAL GOSPEL COMMUNITY income £85k

Side by side with its peers

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