SHRI VALLABH NIDHI - UK

Registered charity 277833 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

General Charitable ActivitiesRelief of PovertyReligious activities

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE THE HINDU RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF SHRI VALLABH. B) EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE HINDU AND ENGLISH CULTURES AND TO THAT END PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR THE TEACHING OF GUJARATI HINDI, SANSKRIT AND ENGLISH. C) RELIEVE POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS. D) PROMOTE THE RELIGIOUS WELFARE OF HINDUS.

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: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £14,637,247, which exceeds its stated policy target of six to eight weeks of expenditure. The charity reported a net income of £490,167 and maintains a strong balance sheet with net assets of £15,487,329, supported by significant freehold property assets.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KLSA 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~200.8 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 (71% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• NARENDRA THAKRARchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• AJAY JOBANPUTRA
• ASHIT ROY THAKKAR
• GORANDE BHATT
• MAHENDRA PATEL
• PRADIP DHAMECHA · trustee of 1 other charity
• RAJUBHAI RAICHURA
• RASIKABEN PATEL
• SUBAHU PATEL

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

Operates in: Brent · Waltham Forest

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 BHAKTIVEDANTA MANOR.

• INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS BHAKTIVEDANTA MANOR income £6.6m
• GURU NANAK NISHKAM SEWAK JATHA LONDON UK income £655k
• VALAN SOCIAL WELFARE TRUST income £759k
• FMM GENERALATE UK CIO income £196k
• THE ROY BARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £475k
• Venture Church income £285k

Side by side with its peers

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