THE HARI PRASAD SHASTRI CHARITABLE TRUST — grant history

Registered charity 254532 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£155k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£68k

Accounts grants total

£68k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The Trust invites applications via an online form or email to [email protected]. Applicants must be based in the UK and seek support for a non-profit project or organisation.

Summarised from www.hpstrust.org.uk · www.hpstrust.org.uk/grants/ · www.hpstrust.org.uk/grant-applications/ on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Overseas Aid/famine Relief (2 grantees)
Education/training (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (2 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Disability (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (1 grantee)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Nepal (2 grantees)
Bangladesh (1 grantee)
India (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Karuna Trust	FY2025	£32k	Aryaloka Project / Preventing trafficking and early marriage Through education
ARK	FY2025	£30k	Fusion Ensemble and Spark Choir (Absolute Return for Kids project)
Educate and Empower Nomadic and Denotified Tribal Girls	FY2025	£6k	Support for nomadic tribal girls in school
Karuna Trust	FY2024	£36k	support the Aryaloka Project which provide secondary education to underprivileged women on the Indian Bangladesh border
Fusion Ensemble and Spark Choir	FY2024	£30k	Ark Music Programme – Absolute Return for Kids project to give disadvantaged pupils access to music in their schools
Pipal Tree	FY2024	£5k	supporting the protection and education of trafficked children in Nepal
Karuna Trust	FY2023	£30k	Aryaloka Project to provide secondary education to women
ARK Schools — Absolute Return for Kids project	FY2023	£30k	Give disadvantaged pupils access to music in their schools
Pipal Tree (formerly Chora Chori)	FY2023	£5k	Supporting the protection and education of trafficked children in Nepal

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 68321 vs reference 67768 (0.8% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.