THE KARUNA TRUST

Registered charity 327461 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Karuna works alongside the most excluded people in South Asia, overcoming discrimination with locally-led education, gender equality and sustainable livelihood projects.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £39,021 for the year, resulting in total reserves of £1,126,333. The trustees report that unrestricted operating reserves of £711,602 are above the stated policy target of approximately £700,000, representing four months' costs. The auditors confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Louise Thomas — Chief Executive Officer (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £285k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 39.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter David Whitechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carolyn Olga Milosevic · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dishir Thakkar · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rachel Lesley Green · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sundeep Kaur Grewal · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · India · Nepal

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KARUNA ACTION.

• KARUNA ACTION income £359k
• N AND R KARNANI TRUST income £1.3m
• THE TIKVAH TRUST income £196k
• THE SHUKTARA TRUST (UK) income £120k
• PROJECT MALA CHARITABLE TRUST income £218k
• GO HELP ASIA TRUST income £265k

Side by side with its peers

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