GUJARAT HINDU SOCIETY, PRESTON

Registered charity 505959 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promote the Hindu religion and the culture of the Gujarat/Hindu community in Preston and district. The society is an unincorporated association. In order to further its objectives the society a) Fosters and encourages the religious, cultural and intellectual advancement of persons of the Hindu faith resident in Preston and district. b) Provides for other charitable purpose in connection with the H

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE HINDU RELIGION OF THE GUJARAT HINDU COMMUNITY IN PRESTON AND DISTRICT. FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF THE RULES AND CONSTITUTION.

Area of benefit: PRESTON AND DISTRICT

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 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

Registered contact address: Preston, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total funds of £3,121,670, with unrestricted reserves of £1,637,001. The trustees report a reserves policy to retain cash adequate to cover 12 months of expenditure, noting that overhead costs are increasing and income is under pressure. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters were identified during the examination of the accounts.

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 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 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 22/02/2024, 22 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• British Heart Foundation — “GHS Bhajan Sammelan Raises Over £5,000 for the British Heart Foundation” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• DASHRATHBHAI H NAYEEchair
• Amratbhai Limbachia
• Amratlal Patel
• Ashit Maheshchandra Jariwala
• Balvantrai Panchal
• Bharat Govind Maru
• Dhanuben T Patel
• Ishwer D Tailor MBE JP DL
• Jashuben Parekh
• Jinabhai Mithabhai Patel
• Ketankumar Vara
• Mahendra Marolia
• Nimesh Parmar
• PRAHLADBHAI S NAYEE
• RAMANBHAI S VALAND

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GUJARATI CULTURAL SOCIETY.

• GUJARATI CULTURAL SOCIETY income £36k
• UNITED KINGDOM HINDU CULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £50k
• HINDU CULTURAL SOCIETY NORTH WEST KENT income £48k
• GUJARATI SUNNI MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTRE (GSMCC) income £79k
• WELLINGBOROUGH DISTRICT HINDU ASSOCIATION income £268k
• SURREY GUJURATI HINDU SOCIETY income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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