SHISHUKUNJ

Registered charity 284206 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides activities aimed at children under the age of 16, primarily on Sunday mornings for 4 hours. Encompasses physical, mental, social, cultural & spiritual development in an environment rich in positive values. Activities are run mainly by youth volunteers. Donates to other charitable initiatives in relieving poverty, distress & sickness amongst children & young people in the UK & the world.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE INDIAN CULTURES AND RELIGIONS AMONGST CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. (B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. (C) TO INSTRUCT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE PRINCIPLES OF DISCIPLINE LOYALTY AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP. (D) TO RELIEVE POVERTY DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Harrow, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net outgoing of resources of £241,998 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total fund balances from £2,950,589 to £2,708,591. Despite this deficit, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £628,175 and maintains a cash balance of £1,010,253. The accounts do not disclose any material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Shishukunj (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~10.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 16.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chandi Gondria
• Dipali Shah
• Jayesh Dhanani
• KUSH SHAH
• Kajal Shah
• Mahel Shah
• Mehul Patel
• Nihir Shah
• Paayal Shah
• Pavan Shah
• Premilaben Halai
• Prisha Halai
• Rakheben Lad
• Sahil Shah
• Suraj Shah
• Ushma Shah
• Vinaya Haria

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MAKING A DIFFERENCE.

• MAKING A DIFFERENCE income £30k
• ACTIVITEENS income £144k
• NE YOUTH income £1.3m
• SCHIFFSHUL LTD income £666k
• ACTIVATE RAWMARSH income £83k
• MISHON income £255k

Side by side with its peers

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