MAHARISHI FOUNDATION

Registered charity 270157 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WORLD GOVERNMENT OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT GREAT BRITAIN · filing overdue (register status) · also registered in Scotland as SC041919 (OSCR)

Advancement of the education of the public by: 1) Offering courses of instruction to the public that will promote the mental and creative development of the individual, including Transcendental Meditation and related advanced techniques. 2) Establishing, conducting and maintaining an institution of further education and additional educational facilities. 3) Making grants to other charities.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, MEETINGS, CLASSES AND OTHER LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES; AND (2) TO DEVELOP THE PHYSICAL, MENTAL, CREATIVE AND/OR SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES OF INDIVIDUALS AND THE PUBLIC AT LARGE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING, IN PARTICULAR IN ALL ASPECTS OF MAHARISHI VEDIC SCIENCE, INCLUDING TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND ITS ADVANCED PROGRAMMES, AS TAUGHT BY MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2022 accounts

The accounts state that the charity and group reported a deficit of £244,499 for the year ended 31 December 2022, resulting in negative unrestricted reserves of £989,686 for the group and £431,215 for the charity. The trustees confirm that forecasts indicate sufficient resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future, citing expected legacy income and improved trading performance as key factors for replenishing reserves.

Automated summary of the FY2022 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SB Audit 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 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 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 16/09/2025, 320 days after the 31/10/2024 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Maharishi Peace Palace (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Tony Nader — global leader of TM organisations (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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~16.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (44% 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: 27.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• AJAY PRAKASH SHRIVASTAVA
• DAVID EMRYS HUGHES
• Deirdre Elizabeth Parsons
• GWYNDAF EVANS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · 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 MADANI GIRLS' SCHOOL.

• MADANI GIRLS' SCHOOL income £976k
• BRAHMARISHI MISSION income £131k
• BACHCHOKA GHAR NASWADI income £67k
• USER VOICE income £784k
• THE MARKAWASI FOUNDATION income £87k
• THE MARANDI FOUNDATION income £163k

Side by side with its peers

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