MAHARISHI FOUNDATION

Registered charity 270157 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WORLD GOVERNMENT OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT GREAT BRITAIN · 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.

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

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.

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 4.8 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 5.2%) (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 DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION UK.

• DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION UK income £173k
• THE SPIRITUAL REGENERATION MOVEMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN income £195k
• RISHI'S VISION income £103k
• THE SCHOOL OF MEDITATION income £146k
• VIPASSANA TRUST income £1.4m
• THE MEDITATION TRUST income £171k

Side by side with its peers

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