BRAHMA KUMARIS WORLD SPIRITUAL UNIVERSITY (UK)

Registered charity 269971 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BKWSU, BRAHMA KUMANS WORLD SPIRITUAL UNIVERSITY (UK), BRAHMA KUMARIS, WORLD RENEWAL SPIRITUAL TRUST (UK) · also registered in Scotland as SC040512 (OSCR)

Regular religious discourses, religious festivals, lectures, seminars & courses, retreats, community outreach.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£3.2m

Latest spending

£3.3m

Registered

1975

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £23,477 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £3,247,162 and total expenditure of £3,270,639. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £6,705,011, which is above its stated target of approximately £4 million. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue its activities for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Voluntary donations (78% of income)

“The charity’s principal source of income continued to be voluntary donations of £2,525,684 (2024: £2,331,053).” — page 26

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: approximately £4 million (held: £6.7m)

“The Trustees have reviewed the charity’s unrestricted expenditure needs and consider it appropriate to maintain a target level of approximately £4 million of unrestricted free reserves.” — page 27

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Kingsley Brackmann Partnership. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Sister Jayanti — CEO, Brahma Kumaris (UK) (source)
Sudesh Didi — European Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Total income

£3.2m

Total spending

£3.3m

Reserves (reported)

£4.0m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~14.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

GIRISH WADHWANI
MAHESH PATEL
SANJAY TULSIDAS
rajiv mehta

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£3.2m	£3.3m
31/12/2024	£3.4m	£2.8m
31/12/2023	£3.3m	£2.5m
31/12/2022	£3.4m	£2.4m
31/12/2021	£5.0m	£2.1m

Common questions

Is BRAHMA KUMARIS WORLD SPIRITUAL UNIVERSITY (UK) financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £23,477 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £3,247,162 and total expenditure of £3,270,639. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £6,705,011, which is above its stated target of approximately £4 million. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue its activities for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Kingsley Brackmann Partnership.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION (HANADIV) EUROPE	1	£898k
THE MONTEFIORE ENDOWMENT	1	£194k
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITY LIMITED	1	£91k
THE MARCUS MARGULIES CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£72k
THE CHARLES WOLFSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£50k
THE PEARS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£50k
THE PHILLIPS AND RUBENS CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£37k
RACHEL CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£24k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NAN PING SPIRITUAL CULTIVATION ORGANIZATION OF THE UK.

NAN PING SPIRITUAL CULTIVATION ORGANIZATION OF THE UK income £1.0m
GURU NANAK NISHKAM SEWAK JATHA LONDON UK income £655k
AHMADIYYA MUSLIM ASSOCIATION UNITED KINGDOM income £41.5m
BRAHMARISHI MISSION income £131k
NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY OF THE BAHA'IS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM income £10.7m
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BRAHMA KUMARIS WORLD SPIRITUAL UNIVERSITY (UK)	£3.2m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
NAN PING SPIRITUAL CULTIVATION ORGANIZATION OF THE UK FY2025	£1.0m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
GURU NANAK NISHKAM SEWAK JATHA LONDON UK FY2024	£655k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
AHMADIYYA MUSLIM ASSOCIATION UNITED KINGDOM FY2025	£41.5m	—	7	unclear	—	no doubt
BRAHMARISHI MISSION FY2025	£131k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY OF THE BAHA'IS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM FY2025	£10.7m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.